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

In his new role as head of the computer-science department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jim Hendler wants to shake up how computer programming is taught — and share the code. In an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Hendler is concerned that the demand for resources is outpacing how fast people can be trained — and that the training is inadequate because of old-school think that programming is a solo sport — and that the product of those efforts is a

VP Engineering David Gorbet getting ready for his keynote at MLW.

I had a chance to catch up with David Gorbet, VP Engineering at MarkLogic about his upcoming keynote at MarkLogic World. He might be an engineer, but he is an engaging and colorful speaker – who likes to show as well as tell. His talk will be about changing the approach to data management from application-centric to data-centric. The result? The Data-Centered Data Center.

That mouthful is a sea-change. “Today’s way of

You probably haven’t heard of Dominic Spitz, marketing guru, non-developer extraordinaire, and 10-minute MarkLogic application builder. Now, gain some perspective from his technical Obi-wan Kenobi, MarkLogic Director of Sales Engineering Paul Preuveneers.

Dominic Spitz is a very talented Marketing chap, and so unskilled at (tedious) programming tasks. With absolutely zero experience using MarkLogic, Dom was able to load data, index it, and then create an application that applied full-text