Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric ...

In a world that is all about new apps and cloud computing, sometimes the important stuff doesn’t look new or cool. Sometimes key small business tools are just functional, they might have been around a ...

At my last job I worked on a monolith that sat on top of a NoSQL database. Our DAOs were fairly simple beasts that did mostly CRUD operations and some non-trivial finds. For the vast majority of data, ...

Nelson Pecora, lead developer on Newsela’s content management system team, with a visualization of Newsela content in a Dgraph database. With online learning becoming the norm, many teachers in the ...

Most enterprise software has a contingent of zealots, people so steeped in the technology that they are convinced it is the be-all and end-all, or those who have taken so many certification exams that ...

Have you ever wanted to build a database but don't know where to start? This course will provide you a step-by-step guidance. We are going to start from a raw idea to an implementable relational ...

At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

Sometimes we lose sight of a simple truth about systems: They are made up of people. Despite all of the frameworks and tools at our disposal and all of our learning as a field of practice, purely ...