Database Software Development Videos and Tutorials: MySQL, Oracle, NoSQL
Presentation by Avinash Lakshman of Facebook. The presenter was one of the designers of Amazon’s Dynamo, and brought a lot of those ideas to Cassandra, a Bigtable clone used for Facebook’s mail search. Notes: *Highly available; eventual consistency only *Replication knobs available (like Dynamo) *For performance, they rely on application …
Voldemort is a distributed key-value store written in Java. Jay is a interesting laid-back guy with some strong opinions. This was one of the best things about the presentations: people said what they thought and the audience seemed to listen and understand, rather than attack (until later, when we got …
Todd Lipcon from Cloudera introduces the concepts behind open source, distributed, non relational databases, from the recent NOSQL meetup in San Francisco. He presented a summary of many of the issues that people are trying to solve with these systems: *Partitioning schemes (does maintaining a map really not scale?) *Data …
The tenets of Domain-Driven Design are well documented, and its mindshare has expanded massively in recent years, due to the brilliant work of Eric Evans and subsequent authors notably Jimmy Nilsson. However, knowledge on persisting domain models, especially in a performant and scalable way, is much less readily accessible. Lessons …
Jim Rea demonstrates Track Magic, a plugin for Panorama that allows Rails developers to interact directly with Rails databases on the desktop without a browser. http://sdruby.com/podcast/62