Cloud computing isn’t like working on-premises. Instead of limiting code to one or maybe two datacenters, we’re designing systems that span not just continents but the entire world. And that’s where ...

The advance of Big Data analytics and the need for real time results in application environments such as IoT is driving the need for a new approach to storage. Startups in this space have a particular ...

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While microservices offer many benefits for developers and application owners, they don't do the data architect many favors. With the inherent independence and loose coupling of microservices-based ...

The conventional wisdom in data management holds that the critical dimensions of data quality include accuracy, completeness, timeliness and consistency. But what does data consistency really mean?

Today’s data-driven marketing reality is practically unrecognizable compared to the industry landscape of just five years ago. The number of marketplace shifts that have happened in that seemingly ...

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Sometimes, in their eagerness to deliver excellent customer experiences, organizations design "special" moments for individual customer touch points. Tactics like this have multiple issues. First, ...