An operating system on top of a distributed database, DBOS is a tantalizing glimpse of something that may eventually turn out to be cool. At the end of March 2024, Mike Stonebraker announced in a blog ...

One of the great things about the IT industry is that there’s no shortage of innovative companies coming up with a wide range of products to address niche problems. Today’s article covers a compendium ...

Since the term’s inception in the late 2000s, “DevOps” is by far the most common approach to product development. During the last 15 years, DevOps processes have evolved to new speeds and scales, with ...

Most database implementations are anything but static. Once deployed, databases are queried, updated, loaded, unloaded, reorganized, and data is deleted and inserted from them on an ongoing basis.

Updates and deletes remove history that is often desirable to keep. It is not only possible but practical to write a database application that preserves that history. Software is a funny business. For ...

Jean Joseph, a data & AI engineer with deep expertise in database development, will explain how to build AI-powered applications with Azure Database for PosgreSQL at at upcoming developer conference.

This is something we've been discussing at work, and I wonder if there's any formal theory or other approaches we might be missing... It is quite common to have a concept of "state" in a database ...