Data-oriented design issues

Feature - As Hadoop evolves, complimentary technologies such as Hive, Mahout, HBase and Cassandra are allowing software engineers get more and more out of commodity hardware.

Feature - As software developers and application architects try to supply mobile friendly APIs to developers, consumerization forces like BYOD and mobile demands are causing many APIs to grow out of control. Here's how good governance and monitoring techniques can...

Feature - Gathered from interviews with various industry experts, here we take a look at some tips on how to build distributed architecture, from using NoSQL and Hadoop, to grappling with RESTful web services and the CAP theorem.

Video - Aggregating and processing millions of records in a real-time content management system means putting big data and NoSQL solutions to the test.

Video - Can relational and NoSQL databases work well together? Craigslist made it happen with a MySQL cluster and MongoDB.

Feature - Choosing between schemaless NoSQL databases and strong-schema relational designs isn't an either-or decision, as this case study points out. When dealing with their big data problem, Craigslist decided that their MySQL servers could use a little help...

Feature - Much has been made of how businesses can enhance their IT performance by migrating to a private cloud. But more and more enterprise level organizations are realizing that the promise of the cloud isn’t always realized after implementation.

Feature - With the proliferation of mobile devices and embedded devices, all acquiring and delivering data to various sources and repositories, organizations that manage content are being overwhelmed. How can organizations not only aggregate this data, but filter...

Feature - It's hard to imagine just how many postings Craigslist has handled over the years, and if you were in charge of archiving those posts and storing them for compliance, you'd need a 'big data' solution. So how does Craigslist manage all of their data, both...

Feature - With so much change in the IT industry, and with consumer products and consumer expectations placing increased demands on what is acceptable from the IT department, how will traditional IT shops modernize to deal with consumerization. Or is it possible...