We are pleased to announce that GenieDB have been selected to present at Under The Radar in April this year.
Under The Radar does not normally accept startups at such an early stage as ours, but our ground-breaking innovative approach to DBMS design, bringing immediate consistency, NoSQL+MySQL, self-healing and more, has been creating ripples in the community!
On of our team, Andy Bennett, is giving a talk on the seventh of April. The title is “Fail to Scale: some pitfalls for successful websites”, and as you may have guessed, the subject matter is web site scaling.
It won’t be a GenieDB product pitch; it’s a technical introduction to the problems of web site scaling.
Click here for more details, or to sign up to attend. It’s free!
We’ve always felt that “SQL vs. NoSQL” is unnecessarily confrontational – why not have both?
So it’s refreshing to read this insightful analysis by Dennis Forbes, in which he pokes holes in some common misunderstandings about the role of the interface you access your data through (SQL or not) in how ‘fast’ your site is.
Remember, SQL is just an interface. Yes, interfaces have some bearing on the efficiency of the systems they form a part of – but the implementation is often a far bigger factor. And fixing a performance issue in an interface is often easier than in an implementation!
From Times Online, March 24, 2010: No techs please, we’re British
Priya is a member of our development team. She’s professional, skilled, great to work with, and as far as we can tell, shares our enthusiasm for our work; and her gender has no bearing on her professional life whatsoever. The fact that she’s good with people may or may not be an attribute of her gender – some say women are more sociable, although whether that’s really true or not, and if so, whether it’s genetic or just social conditioning, is not something I’m sure has been settled – but that’s irrelevant; we took the fact that she’s good with people into account when deciding who to hire out of our selection of candidates – regardless of where this attribute comes from.
The UK technology community is undeniably male-dominated, which is a shame – because people are missing out on excellent careers in technology (and it is a very rewarding field to work in) just because of their gender.
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