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What to Consider when Building a Database for Today’s Data

What to Consider when Building a Database for Today’s Data

October 15, 2019

Accomplish large scale applications on a slim budget Everybody wants to build applications that scale out like Google. The trick is how to accomplish that without having to fund a budget that only a company like Google can underwrite. I want a database to pamper me. …

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Complex decisions and random chance

Complex decisions and random chance

October 11, 2019

An important aspect of RavenDB is that It Just Works. In other words, we aim to make RavenDB a really boring database, one that require very little of your attention. As it turns out, this can get really complex. The topic for today is role assignment in a distributed cluster after recovering from a failure. Let’s consider the case of a cluster…

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Data modeling with RavenDB Webinar is now available

Data modeling with RavenDB Webinar is now available

October 10, 2019

Here is the webinar recording from last week. …

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Watch: High performance servers with NET Core

Watch: High performance servers with NET Core

October 4, 2019

My .NET Core Conf talk has been posted and you can now watch it! …

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Second part of my RavenDB DevOps podcast with Jeffery Palermo is live

Second part of my RavenDB DevOps podcast with Jeffery Palermo is live

October 3, 2019

You can listen to me and Jeffery Palermo talk about how we actually build RavenDB. The first part of the discussion is here.…

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Running RavenDB with low memory

Running RavenDB with low memory

September 27, 2019

I have been talking about memory and RavenDB a lot, and I thought that I would share the following image from one of our test runs: This is RavenDB running in a container with 16MB of available memory.  This is when we are under (moderate) load: Note that the actual working set used by RavenDB is 2.28MB, and while the total allocations are…

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Business diagnostics for line of business applications

Business diagnostics for line of business applications

September 26, 2019

After my podcast about RavenDB’s dev ops story, I was asked an interesting question by Remi: …do you think it can work with non technical product (let’s say banking app) where your user and your engineer are not in the same industry. This is quite an interesting scenario. A line of business application is going to be composed of two separate…

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Robustness fixes are hard

Robustness fixes are hard

September 25, 2019

The following is a fix we did to resolve a production crash of RavenDB. Take a look at the code, and consider what kind of error we are trying to handle here. Hint: The logger class can never throw. The underlying issue was simple. We run out of memory, which is an expected occurrence, and is handled by the very function that we are looking at…

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My podcast with Palermo is out: DevOps inside RavenDB, Part I

My podcast with Palermo is out: DevOps inside RavenDB, Part I

September 24, 2019

I spoke with Jeffery Palermo about how we are building RavenDB itself, and it turns out good enough to make a couple of podcast episodes out of it. You can listen to the first part here. And I would be delighted to hear your…