Domain modelling and persistence appear to be at odds with each other, no matter which persistence store you use. Over the years practices have been developed for storing a model in a relational database using ORM frameworks like Hibernate, and various design patterns to help mitigate a number of issues. Not all of these translate […]
Eventual Consistency
Once in a while, an idea emerges that is contrary to the way we have grown accustomed to doing things. Eventual consistency is such an idea, and the way we used to build datastores was with SQL and ACID transactions. So whats wrong with that? Too many generals Information always flows as messages using a […]
Putting the pedal to the Mongo metal
At Trifork we’re always looking to get the best performance out of our systems. As a 10gen partner that means that we also try to squeeze the most out of our MongoDB deployments in terms of read and write throughput. Experience has shown that it matters greatly whether those deployments are performed on dedicated hardware […]