On InterSystems Virtual Summit 2021. Q&A with Scott Gnau
Q1. What is new at this year’s Summit? This year was our second annual Virtual Summit and we were excited to bring a plethora of keynotes and on-demand sessions that touch on how data...
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On Managing Cloud Native Data on Kubernetes. Q&A with Patrick McFadin
Q1. You wrote a new book called “Managing Cloud Native Data on Kubernetes”. What is this book about? It’s meant to be a comprehensive overview of running all aspects of data infrastructure inside Kubernetes....
On building real-time applications. Q&A with Tim Hall
1. You just announced InfluxDB’s enhancements to “enable developers building real-time applications quickly and to scale”. What are these new enhancements? Our goal with these enhancements is to make writing code faster and easier for developers. ...
On health behavior research and Couchbase. Q&A with J.C. Subida, Software Developer, Northwestern University.
“ When designing our platform, we required a versatile solution that synchronized data between servers and devices on the edge. Furthermore, it had to provide efficient scaling as our data needs increased as well as...
On IoT and Time Series Databases. Q&A with Brian Gilmore.
“ As the IoT becomes mainstream and consumerized, many look at IoT as a threat. Everyone has heard some horror story about a vacuum cleaner bot-net or backdoor access to customer data through the automation...
On NoSQL Databases and Data Security. Q&A with Keshav Murthy and Ramesh Chitor
Q1. Keshav, you are Vice President, Couchbase R&D. What are your current projects? Keshav Murthy : This summer we released Couchbase Server 7 with major innovations to help customers embrace modern databases easily: Improved data organization, SQL...
On eXtremeDB/rt. Q&A with Steven Graves
“Real-time analytics has nothing to do with real-time systems.” Q1. What is eXtremeDB/rt and what class of applications benefit from using it? eXtremeDB/rt is the first and only commercial, supported, embedded deterministic database management...
On Apache Cassandra 4.0 Q&A with Patrick McFadin
One of the topics the project has been debating often is release cadence and the downstream effect. Incremental changes beyond bug fixes are important as new features are improved and matured. Finding a way...
On Telegraf Operator. Q&A with Russ Savage
Telegraf can collect metrics from pretty much any system or environment. At present there are over 200 Telegraf input plugins and that number just keeps increasing. That’s a huge advantage right there because it’s...
On Amazon MemoryDB. Q&A with Jonathan Fritz
Q1. What are the key technical challenges when using microservices for a software architecture composed of many small independent services that communicate with each other? Developers building applications that require high performance at massive...