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The Birth of RavenDB with Oren Eini

The Birth of RavenDB with Oren Eini

August 2, 2021

Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien talks with The 6 Figure Developer about the very beginnings of his NoSQL database solution, RavenDB.

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Modeling social network connection with RavenDB

Modeling social network connection with RavenDB

August 2, 2021

I got an interesting scenario that I thought would make for a good blog post. Given a social network similar to Twitter, how would you deal with the social aspect of it? In other words, how would you model the following relationship between users. In pretty much all social media platforms, the following relationship is unidirectional. I’m…

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Why is NoSQL Database Good for Musicians?

Why is NoSQL Database Good for Musicians?

July 30, 2021

AKM Chooses RavenDB to Help Ensure Musicians Get Royalties from YouTube and Spotify You are sitting in your office getting bored. There is a meeting in about 10 minutes, and you are in between tasks. So, you put on YouTube to listen to some music. You select “Beethoven”, and out comes fifty options for his legendary fifth symphony. You make…

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Open for extension, closed for modification as an architectural pattern

Open for extension, closed for modification as an architectural pattern

July 30, 2021

The Open Closed Principle is part of the SOLID principles. It isn’t new or anything exciting, but I wanted to discuss this today in the context of using that not as a code artifact but as part of your overall architecture. The Open Closed Principle states that the code should be opened for extension, but closed for modification. That is a fancy…

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A Database that Saves Money

A Database that Saves Money

July 29, 2021

And capitalizes on new features on the cloud without harassing you every six months with higher prices. The elite can afford to solve any problem by simply throwing money at it. What about the rest of us who have to carefully measure the expense against the benefit for every decision? What about startups and small businesses that have a…

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What Is a NoSQL Database? Enginears Podcast feat. RavenDB

What Is a NoSQL Database? Enginears Podcast feat. RavenDB

July 28, 2021

In this podcast, Eliot talks databases with RavenDB to understand how they built their world-leading NoSQL solution, capable of handling a million reads per second.

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Architecture foresight: Put a queue on that

Architecture foresight: Put a queue on that

July 28, 2021

If you build any kind of non trivial system, one of the absolutely best things that you can do for the long term health of your system is to move all significant processing to sit behind a queue.  That is one of those things that is going to pay massive dividends down the line as your system grows. Basically, any time that you want to do something…

Use Cases
The Fastest ACID Database Chosen for Canary Monitoring

The Fastest ACID Database Chosen for Canary Monitoring

July 28, 2021

Canary Monitoring chose the fastest database, that can also manage several different data clusters and works well with their C# codebase. I am extremely pleased with RavenDB. We were able to get up and running in a month and in the hands of data users. Ryan Duffield, CTO & Co-Founder Canary Monitoring ECommerce websites use a dozen or more…

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Responsibility Abdication: The path to create flexible business system

Responsibility Abdication: The path to create flexible business system

July 27, 2021

I had a long conversation with a dev team that are building a non trivial business system. One of the chief problems that they have to deal with is that the “business logic” that they are asked to work with is extremely mutable, situation dependent and changes frequently. That isn’t a new compliant, of course, but given that I have run into this…