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Database Refactoring Patterns with Pramod Sadalage - Episode 22

Data Engineering Podcast

You first co-authored Refactoring Databases in 2006. What was the state of software and database system development at the time and why did you find it necessary to write a book on this subject? What have you found to be the most problematic aspects of databases when trying to evolve the functionality of a system?

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The Good and the Bad of Hadoop Big Data Framework

AltexSoft

Developed in 2006 by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella to run the web crawler Apache Nutch, it has become a standard for Big Data analytics. On top of HDFS, the Hadoop ecosystem provides HBase , a NoSQL database designed to host large tables, with billions of rows and millions of columns. What is Hadoop?

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