Tag: Best Practices
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ACID vs CAP: What’s the Difference?
Read more: ACID vs CAP: What’s the Difference?Acid transactions, ACID properties, and the CAP theorem are two important concepts in data management and distributed systems. It’s unfortunate that in both acronyms the “C” stands for “Consistency,” but actually means completely different things. What follows is a primer on the…
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Database Resolutions for 2018
Read more: Database Resolutions for 2018The New Year brings about the perfect time to start fresh and set some new goals. So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to…
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Managing the real-time data explosion? Look out for these 5 gotchas
Read more: Managing the real-time data explosion? Look out for these 5 gotchasReal-time connectivity will stop being an optional way to incrementally improve efficiency and instead become a baseline requirement without which things simply won’t work. Over the next decade the ratio of humans to computers on the internet will change radically. We’re moving…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Read more: Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’. A lot of people would regard me as being unreasonable, but from my perspective I have a chain of…
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From the Internet of People to the IoT and the Analytics of Things – industry examples
Read more: From the Internet of People to the IoT and the Analytics of Things – industry examplesThis post is a contribution from Cheryl Wiebe, Partner of Advanced Analytics at Teradata West Region. If you follow Gartner, Forrester and other industry analysts, you’re probably a reader of Gartner’s ‘Hype Cycles’ and Forrester’s ‘Waves’. According to Gartner, IoT is at…
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How Docker Simplifies Distributed Systems Development at Volt Active Data
Read more: How Docker Simplifies Distributed Systems Development at Volt Active DataWorking on distributed systems is fun, but not easy! As a software engineer at Volt Active Data, a big chunk of my time is spent testing software on a cluster of machines as part of new feature development and also for customer…
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Clarifications On The CAP Theorem And Data-Related Errors
Read more: Clarifications On The CAP Theorem And Data-Related ErrorsThere has been another round of online conversations about the CAP theorem as the internet community continues to discuss its implications on networked databases. Coda Hale recently wrote a well received article titled CAP paper by Gilbert and Lynch. Scattered in the larger…