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TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

An agent can produce a mathematically elegant, third-normal-form schema that is functionally irrelevant because it fails to capture the political or operational nuances of the organization. Deploying ...

The first generation of distributed databases was optimized to write to disk with limited or secondary support for caching. Applications inefficiently relied on a separate in-memory cache that was ...

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Architecting modern applications is a tough job, and architecting a solid data model for modern applications is one of the toughest, yet most important, parts of a modern application architecture.