DevOpsQA NJ just held our October Meetup on NoSQL in Agile DevOps Model with Shawn McCarthy from MongoDB, Bhavna Sehgal from Syncsort and Suhas Joshi as speakers. The venue was provided by ROKITT at a state-of-the-art office space with breathtaking views of NYC. Suhas, a Solutions Architect with a vast DevOps experience, gave a great […]
Does MariaDB replace the “M” in LAMP
If you were starting a new application tomorrow, which backend would you use? Chances are you said MySQL. However post Oracle acquisition MySQL has changed. After Oracle purchased the code they broke the hearts of many. And there is hope that MySQL has re-invented itself in the form of MariaDB
SQL lovers fear not – NoSQL just got friendlier
Today Couchbase, the creator of an Enterprise NoSQL database server, announces N1QL ( pronounced Nickle) at their user conference. N1QL is designed to ease the pain for SQL developers when considering NoSQL, by creating a new query language to sit on top. It is essentially SQL for JSON documents.
SQL vs. NoSQL – Unsettled Debate & DevOps Pitfalls
Big Data, a relatively new phenomenon driving the industry hype-cycle is a mainstay in the database business. IT companies are convinced over the endless value proposition of the operational insight that comes with leveraging Big Data ( or Big Small Data ), so much so that it’s easy to overlook its impact on traditional database […]
MongoDB 2.6: Most Significant Release of Mongo Yet?
MongoDB announced the latest version of the popular NoSQL database yesterday, version 2.6. I had a chance to speak with Kelly Stirman, Director of Product at Mongo about the release. The release is chocked full of goodies for Mongo users. For me chief among them was the new security features highlighted in the press release below. […]
MongoDB Needs and Loves DevOps
DevOps is about more than just running infrastructure smarter, with more automation. It’s a means to engineering agile, robust, and modern software by blending the traditionally siloed areas of administration and development. This means infrastructure as code, and developer concern for operations. It means more than calling sysadmins “DevOps Engineers”; it means operators and developers […]