Our story begins squeezed into the corner of this room: the data team. Analytics requirements were pushed out of the critical path for launches, slowly and then all at once. The data team is fighting against prioritization, cooperation, and, soon, relevance. This is sadly the state of many organizations, to …
Triggers, more specifically DML triggers, are blocks of code that run automatically when the associated event occurs on an Oracle database table. Some developers use them a lot. Many others say “Never use triggers!” What’s a DB dev to do? In our September PL/SQL Office Hours, Chris and Steven explore …
Prisma is the data layer for modern applications. It replaces traditional ORMs in your application architecture and simplifies various database workflows, such as data modeling, migrations and real-time data streaming. In this talk, we will start from scratch and explore how Prisma works. Going from just a simple data model, …
YugaByte DB, a highly performant, ACID compliant and transactional database is a startup founded by the engineers who were instrumental in creating Cassandra inside FaceBook. It is well understood that microservices are multi-cloud deployable in an active-active mode. The challenge has always been the data tier powering the apps which …
MongoDB CTO and Co-Founder Eliot Horowitz shares what is new in MongoDB 4.0. The release of MongoDB 4.0 is highlighted by the general availability of multi-document ACID transactions, making it even easier to address a complete range of use cases on MongoDB. By providing a consistent view of data across …
Relational databases are the product of decades of research and optimization, but when your business grows so big that a database reaches breaking point, where can you turn? On the other side of the fence are a variety of NoSQL databases which sell on scalability and cheaper hardware but come …
