Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

A database start up, NuoDB, reached out to me to talk about a project they were working on to address the need for extremely scalable, web scale, transaction oriented database engines. The ...

With necessity being the mother of invention, PlanetScale co-founder Jiten Vaidya needed a way to scale the MySQL databases that were running many of YouTube's operational systems. They developed a ...

After doing some consulting for Microsoft to develop protections against zero-day exploits, software engineer Joran Dirk Greef worked with Coil, a web monetization startup in San Francisco, to help ...

Ares Genetic is granting a permanent, unrestricted and non-exclusive access to a small subset of the proprietary ARESdb data asset to an unnamed global corporation and leader in microbiology and ...