Let’s further discuss DW economics in the cloud. Imagine that DW#2 in Figure 1 supports queries from your corporate finance…
What is a Cloud-native Database?
Before this series is complete, I plan on defining in some detail what the various levels of Cloud-nativeness might be…
A Segue from ETL to DB
This is a short post to segue to point where I’ve been headed all along. Figure 1 recasts the picture…
More on Cloud Data Elasticity
The last post (here) demonstrated how scalability in the cloud provides the ability to reduce runtimes from days or hours…
Cloud-native Computing, Workloads, and Elasticity
Over the next several weeks, I’ll share my perspective of current best practices for big data, which is the term…
Back in the saddle
In 2015, President Obama appointed me the CIO of the Social Security Administration, and I had to stop posting here.…
Refactoring Databases P2.75: REST and ORB Thoughts
I’m riffing on database design and modeling in an agile methodology. In the previous post here I suggested that we…
Refactoring Databases P2.5: Scoping the Cheats
One of the side-effects of the little cheat posted here is that, if we are going to design early we…
Refactoring Databases P2: Cheating a Little
In this post I am going to suggest doing a little design a little upfront and violating the purity of…
Refactoring Databases P1: Defining Some Terms
We are in the middle of several agile projects at the SSA… so I’ll start the year by sharing some…
