Data is both the most important asset and the biggest challenge for most corporations. It impacts every aspect of the business from financial considerations to AI/ML training. Data is used by development and DevOps teams, engineering teams, quality assurance, business intelligence teams and database administrators. Despite its central role in operations, traditional forms of database […]
How Database DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation
In today’s real-time, hyperconnected reality, data is a core driver behind most digital strategies. User data is constantly gathered and shared across various technology backends and platforms—as is system performance data to inform engineers. Data is pivotal for everything, from generating machine learning models, refining user experiences and even supporting new data-centric services. But although […]
Stream Big, Think Bigger: Analyze Streaming Data at Scale
Data streams are all the rage. Once a niche element of data engineering, streaming data is the new normal—more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies have adopted Apache Kafka, the most common streaming platform, and every major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure) has launched its own streaming service. This shift is […]
The Database of the Future: Seven Key Principles
The database of the future will be more than just a database. Instead, it will be a platform that focuses on the user experience and abstracts the technology. Looking at the evolution of application development, an enormous amount of effort has made it easier to build and deploy applications. Similarly, databases need to evolve for […]
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad.
Key Findings From the 2022 State of GraphQL Report
GraphQL, the open source query language, has been steadily growing in popularity over the past few years. The language is excellent for frontend development, as it creates a usable interface to fetch precisely the data required for the specific client at hand. You can also use it to aggregate multiple backend services and data sources. […]
Zilliz Unfurls Managed Vector Database Service
Zilliz this week made generally available a managed cloud service that can now be spun up in less than five minutes. The service is based on the company’s open source Milvus vector database. Frank Liu, director of operations for Zilliz, said the managed Zilliz Cloud service running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud will […]
Momento Launches Elastic Cloud Caching Service
Momento this week emerged from stealth to launch an elastic Serverless Cache platform that promises to improve the performance of applications running on databases deployed in the cloud while simultaneously reducing costs. Fresh from raising $15 million in seed funding, Momento CEO and co-founder Khawaja Shams said Serverless Cache gives IT teams access to a […]
Database Observability: How to Circumvent your Weakest Link
Today, IT pros field an increasing number of assets they need to monitor to secure systems and understand what’s happening in their database and applications. This is further complicated as organizations adopt hybrid IT strategies and IT pros are tasked with managing tech stacks that span across on-premises and public clouds. To cut through complexity […]
Time-Series Database Basics
There’s been a lot of buzz about time-series data for the past few years. No matter what you’re monitoring—financial data, server performance, social media activity or something else entirely—time-series data can give you valuable insights into trends and patterns. But what exactly is a time-series database, and why do you need one? This article will […]
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