Let’s further discuss DW economics in the cloud. Imagine that DW#2 in Figure 1 supports queries from your corporate finance … More
Author: Rob Klopp
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 … More
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
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 … More
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 … More
Back in the saddle
In 2015, President Obama appointed me the CIO of the Social Security Administration, and I had to stop posting here. … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More