Coarse-grained Cloud Economics

Let’s further discuss DW economics in the cloud. Imagine that DW#2 in Figure 1 supports queries from your corporate finance … More

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

This is a short post to segue to point where I’ve been headed all along. Figure 1 recasts the picture … More

The last post (here) demonstrated how scalability in the cloud provides the ability to reduce runtimes from days or hours … More

Over the next several weeks, I’ll share my perspective of current best practices for big data, which is the term … More

In 2015, President Obama appointed me the CIO of the Social Security Administration, and I had to stop posting here. … More

I’m riffing on database design and modeling in an agile methodology. In the previous post here I suggested that we … More

One of the side-effects of the little cheat posted here is that, if we are going to design early we … More

In this post I am going to suggest doing a little design a little upfront and violating the purity of … More

We are in the middle of several agile projects at the SSA… so I’ll start the year by sharing some … More