ETL by API: An Antipattern
ETL by API can be done well, but the reality is most of the time it is not. Why? APIs were designed to back applications and allow for communication between …
Approaching Performance Tuning Methodically
Performance tuning is usually focused on the database because many problems will manifest there, although some of the problems are not caused there. We will begin by analyzing the presentation …
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The Need for Performance Tuning in the Cloud Era
As software engineers who have experience with databases and application languages, we are often asked to troubleshoot difficult performance problems. Most of those problems present in the database, and in …