Pioneers Bill Inmon, known as the ‘father of data warehousing’ and Ralph Kimball, a thought leader in dimensional data warehousing, have an ongoing debate. According to Kimball: “The data warehouse is nothing more than the union of all data marts”, to which Inmon responds: “You can catch all the minnows in the ocean and stack them together — they still do not make a whale”.
It’s easy to understand distributed system architecture if you are familiar with RMI.
Why do people study history even though it is not going to help in the future? There could be some hidden advantage and same applies here.
RMI stands for Remote Method Invocation and it allows Java developers to write an object to invoke methods on an object running in another JVM. But here JVM1(we call it client) and JVM2(we call it server) do not communicate directly, there are few layers in between.
The term data warehouse was introduced in the late 1980s, and big data was introduced around 2005. So how does this alien technology called big data was able to become popular in such a short period of time? Are there any secrets behind? Is the data warehouse concept dead now? Let’s find out all the answers.
The secret behind the term “Big."
The term “Big” is highly subjective. So what you think is big, may not be the same thing that I think is big. Does it make any sense? Well then just read the statistics below,
IDC predicts that global dataspace will grow up to…
The easiest way to build an e-commerce web app using established foundations
Today, shops have gone digital. You can find many businesses seeking e-commerce platforms to go online. If you plan to provide a personalized e-commerce experience to your customers, most of you might look to develop one from the ground up.
Here, the challenge is that it takes time and effort, delaying the time to market. The good news is, you don’t need to do everything from scratch. There are many Storefronts out there, which you can customize for your needs.
In this article, I will discuss four Storefronts based on React to help you head start your e-commerce journey.
1. Snipcart - Pluggable Shopping Cart for Gatsby and NextJS
Introduced by Google in September 2020
IDC predicts that global dataspace will grow up to 175 zettabytes (10 to power 21) by 2025. Even my driving license is connected to the internet using RFID, and therefore continuously generates data.
According to a cloud adoption survey by Gartner, 81% of companies that are using public clouds are using more than one cloud provider. In simple terms, multi-cloud management is becoming more important than ever. However, the separated data needs to be implemented in a centralized data warehouse, because it’s impractical to have multiple data warehouses inside a single company. …
A few weeks back, I went to a tech talk at my university (this article is not about the event). I sat on the back row as usual. While listening to the speaker, I had an interesting chat with the person next to me.
Anonymous: If you were invited as a guest speaker for an event, what would be the interesting topics that you would love to talk about?
Me: Obviously, it will be about entrepreneurship.
Anonymous: Why do you call yourself an entrepreneur?. Do you have any registered businesses?.
Me: Well, entrepreneurship is neither having a business nor a…
I just completed my Software Engineering internship at Creative Software and I’m writing this article to share my experience and to recommend my juniors why you should choose Creative Software to build-up your skills as a professional Software Engineer. You might be wondering why I’ve emphasized the phrase “professional Software Engineer”. No, it’s not a mistake. It’s because the main objective in including an internship in a particular degree program is to produce professional graduates. …
