NoSQL databases scale by adding more commodity servers. With more commodity servers come increased costs and complexities. Some NoSQL systems are better at this than others and need less.
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IT departments must transform in the face of the cloud revolution
During the week of October 5th, I had an opportunity to attend the AWS re:Invent 2015 conference in Las Vegas, of all places. As someone who has built an entire career on putting together custom application server software, I should be the last one to get excited about server-less applications. Just like Salesforce’s “no software,” Amazon’s “server-less software” mantra is about a world where application development is not limited by IT, software to install and servers to manage.
Top Ten Differences Between ActiveMQ and Amazon SQS
UPDATE 2/15/2018: This post was originally published in 2015. While it is informative in its own right, a lot has changed … More
Your IT Department’s Kodak Moment
Your IT department’s Kodak moment is now, but it is not the kind of a moment where you get to … More
Smart IT Departments Own Their Business API and Take Ownership of Data Governance
Satya Nadella explained Microsoft’s “secret” weapon against AWS and Google: To me what matters is having the right mix of … More
Exploration of the Software Engineering as a Profession
In 1992 Ed Yourdon wrote Decline and Fall of the American Programmer followed by Rise and Resurrection of the American … More
Microsoft and Apple Have Everything to Lose if Chromebooks Succeed
Desperate times call for desperate measures at Microsoft. Frobes reports: Despite a lacklustre start, Chromebooks are becoming relatively popular in … More
Infrastructure in the cloud vs on-premise
I made a comment on twitter saying that if you are still operating an on-premise data center in the second decade … More
The Dulin Report 