I’m riffing on database design and modeling in an agile methodology. In the previous post here I suggested that we might cheat a little and design database schemas 2-4 weeks in advance of their use… further, I suggested that to maximize agility we should limit the design to a conceptual schema. In this post I’m…
Hiya, My apologies for neglecting this blog… The SSA CIO job takes time. I have several database-specific blogs drafted that I hope to get to over the holidays… In the meantime here is a CIOish post on the problem of modernizing old IT infrastructure: https://cio.gov/modernizing-federal-it-part-1-catching-up-and-jumping-ahead/ While it is not specifically about database infrastructure… I think…
I composed the video below on a contract for Intel… but they were kind enough to let me tell the story with only a lite promotional touch. I think that you will find the story interesting as it describes 20+ years of systems architecture and suggests where we may well be headed in the next…
Recently I posted (here) some thinking that suggested that the cost of replicating data into specialized databases might outweigh the benefits of specialization. This post will present a counter view and try to sort out when a specialized database might make sense. In the ZDNet post here: “Look at What Google and Amazon are doing with…
In the first two post of this series (here and here) I first suggested that Hadoop could be effectively used as the platform for staging and then suggested that a modern warehouse would have a federation layer that turned it into a logical data warehouse. Figure 3 depicts this extended architecture. But if we have…
In the first post of this series (here) I suggested that Hadoop could be effectively used as the platform for staging. Figure 2 describes the result. In this post I will extend the architecture by adding a data federation feature and turning the entire picture into a logical data warehouse… and then we’ll consider the…
In this series I will present a perspective on how the classic EDW architecture is changing under the influence of new technologies, new requirements, and new economics. Part 1 will show the first of three architectural changes by introducing a data lake into the picture… in Part 2 we’ll extend the picture by adding a…
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