Why should people store many kinds of data in one place? Why not put the many kinds in many places? A customer of mine has learned the answer the hard way by doing the latter, so I thought I’d write it up as a case study so you don’t have to suffer the pain that it had.

Honestly, I am writing this for my benefit too. Watching a team try to integrate three or four different persistence and data processing products (the polyglot part) into some kind of “Franken-beast” is like watching a

Why should people store many kinds of data in one place? Why not put the many kinds in many places? A customer of mine has learned the answer the hard way by doing the latter, so I thought I’d write it up as a case study so you don’t have to suffer the pain that it had.

Honestly, I am writing this for my benefit too. Watching a team try to integrate three or four different persistence and data processing products (the polyglot part) into some kind of “Franken-beast” is like watching a

There’s a growing interest in Microservices and Martin Fowler describes how microservice architecture is a particular way of “designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services.”

The promise of microservices is it allows you to continuously increase the capabilities of your public site, or internal systems, by rolling out small, defined bits of functionality on a regular basis. That’s in contrast with making changes in large monolithic applications where a