Big Data from Space: the “Herschel” telescope.
” One of the biggest challenges with any project of such a long duration is coping with change. There are many aspects to coping with change, including changes in requirements, changes in technology,...
View ArticleData Analytics at NBCUniversal. Interview with Matthew Eric Bassett.
“The most valuable thing I’ve learned in this role is that judicious use of a little bit of knowledge can go a long way. I’ve seen colleagues and other companies get caught up in the “Big Data” craze...
View ArticleBig Data: Three questions to Aerospike.
“Many tools now exist to run database software without installing software. From vagrant boxes, to one click cloud install, to a cloud service that doesn’t require any installation, developer ease of...
View ArticleOn PostgreSQL. Interview with Bruce Momjian.
“There are four things that motivate open source development teams: 1. The challenge/puzzle of programming, 2. Need for the software, 3. Personal advancement, 4. Belief in open source” — Bruce Momjian....
View ArticleLinkedIn China new Social Platform Chitu. Interview with Dong Bin.
“Complicated queries, like looking for second degree friends, is really hard to traditional databases.” –Dong Bin I have interviewed Dong Bin, Engineer Manager at LinkedIn China. The LinkedIn China...
View ArticleDatabase Challenges and Innovations. Interview with Jim Starkey
“Isn’t it ironic that in 2016 a non-skilled user can find a web page from Google’s untold petabytes of data in millisecond time, but a highly trained SQL expert can’t do the same thing in a relational...
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On Open Source Databases. Interview with Peter Zaitsev
“To be competitive with non-open-source cloud deployment options, open source databases need to invest in “ease-of-use.” There is no tolerance for complexity in many development teams as we move to...
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On RDBMS, NoSQL and NewSQL databases. Interview with John Ryan
“The single most important lesson I’ve learned is to keep it simple. I find designers sometimes deliver over-complex, generic solutions that could (in theory) do anything, but in reality are remarkably...
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On Innovation. Interview with Scott McNealy
“We made it a point to hire really smart, visionary people and then let them do their work. I wanted to delegate and let people be in charge of things. My own decision-making process was to decide who...
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On MariaDB. Interview with Michael Widenius
“The best possible database migration is when you are able to move all your data and stored procedures unchanged(!) to the new system.” — Michael Widenius. I have interviewed Michael “Monty” Widenius,...
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