Tag: databases
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Charles Schwab Adopts PostgreSQL (With VMware Tanzu) – Why Charles Schwab chose Postgres over Oracle, and chose to pay for Tanzu Data Services support.
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Are platforms pointless? – ‘So much of “platform engineering” treats the application process itself as the main event. Sure, great, you make it easy for me to run hundreds of Nginx’s with whatever-the-fuck behind them, and restart and blue-green deploy and autoscale. Great. That’s not my performance bottleneck.’ // He says: (1) It’s just a…
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MariaDB walks tightrope between commerce and open source – “It recorded a 26 percent year-over-year increase in revenue to reach $13.5 million, although it was still making a net loss of $11.9 million, partly owing to the cost of going public.”
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Link: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA
This week in data lakes… Source: SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #34
The problem with me and newsletters is that I constantly want to make one, but they’re a lot of work. I long for the old blog days of just a splatter of content, a wunderkammer. Let’s try this commonplace book format. Software Defined Talk Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of…
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Link: The Contradictions Of IBM’s Platform Strategy
“IBM is a systems company with a very large portion of its revenues and an even larger part of its profits coming from these two platforms, the System z mainframe and the Power Systems – now sometimes called the Cognitive Systems – line. The core systems business – meaning the servers, storage, and networking hardware…
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Link: Whither the DBA
“In every case in which a CIO or other executive has driven or authorized substantial investments in service-based database infrastructure, changes in DBA roles have followed. As two financial industry executives put it at a conference in Jersey City and re:Invent, respectively, their DBAs are all being moved to doing more generic DevOps-style roles, roles…
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Link: Datical cozies up to Pivotal for synchronized database updates
‘Datical automatically examines SQL scripts created by developers and aligns them with a common object model. “We create a package so you have an immutable artifact that goes from development to test to production just like your app code,” Reeves said. The software checks for inefficiencies, such as the use of multiple indices or joins,…
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IBM to make Java database open source
CNET reports that IBM is going to open source Cloudscape, a Java, embedded DB. I have a certain loathing for databases, but over the years I’ve realized that it’s not so much the DB part that I don’t like, but that they’re usually separate systems. Thus, embedded DB’s that are pure Java — like Cloudscape,…
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