Overview Poor schema planning creates rigid systems that fail under growing data complexityWeak indexing and duplication reduce performance and increase mainten ...

Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...

You are creating a database from scratch for an application This application will have multiple siloed environments (PROD, TST, INT, DEV) Data from PROD will nightly be moved to the other environments ...

Tonight I’m going to a sold-out MongoDB event hosted by my company at our local startup incubator. Already, 250 have people signed up. That’s a pretty good crowd for Durham, NC, but not surprising ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.