Series – Part 1: Serverless Architecture – a practical implementation: IoT Device data collection, processing and user interface.

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Serverless architectures are getting a lot of attention lately – and for good reason. I won’t rehash the definition of the architecture because Mike Roberts did a fine (and exhaustive) job over at MartinFowler.com. However, practical illustrations of patterns and implementations are exceptionally hard to find. This series of posts will attempt to close that gap… Continue reading Series – Part 1: Serverless Architecture – a practical implementation: IoT Device data collection, processing and user interface.

The time for consolidation in the DB market has come; RethinkDB to shut down.

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Too many databases with too little differentiation. The time has come for consolidation – including more news like RethinkDB shutting down: Document oriented databases will be first – but expect additional consolidation in other segments. To be clear – we are not heading back to the bad old days of one database (vendor) to rule… Continue reading The time for consolidation in the DB market has come; RethinkDB to shut down.

Upping your data game with Graph Databases

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Since the late-2000’s there has been an explosion of non-relational (NoSQL if you must) data persistence technology. The industry buzz has focused around the derivatives of the seminal work done at Google – i.e., BigTable – and Amazon – i.e., Dynamo. We’ve seen massive adoption of simple document stores and key-value based stores – which… Continue reading Upping your data game with Graph Databases