American inventor Thomas Edison once said, “Hell, there are no rules here. We’re trying to accomplish something.”
What we hope to accomplish with this episode of the Groundbreaker Podcast is an exploration of the idea that the evolution in today’s architectures makes it advantageous, perhaps even necessary, to challenge some long-established concepts that have achieved “golden rule” status as they apply to the use of databases.
Does ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) still carry as much weight? In today’s environments, how much do rigorous data integrity enforcement, data normalization, and data freshness matter? This program explores those and other questions.
Bringing their insight and expertise to this discussion are three recognized IT professionals who regularly wrestle with balancing the rules with innovation. If you’ve struggled with that same balancing act, you’ll want to listen to this program.
The Panelists
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Heli Helskyaho CEO, Miracle Finland Oy, Finland Oracle ACE Director |
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Lucas Jellema CTO, Consulting IT Architect, AMIS Services, Netherlands Oracle ACE Director Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador ![]() |
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Guido Schmutz Principal Consultant, Technology Manager, Trivadis, Switzerland Oracle ACE Director Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador ![]() |
Additional Resources
- 50 Shades of Data – how, when and why Big, Relational,NoSQL, Elastic, Graph, Event
Oracle Code One presentation by Lucas Jellema - Introducing Apache Kafka and Why It’s Important to Oracle, Java, and IT Professionals
Slides from Lucas Jellema’s presentation, Oracle Groundbreakers APAC tour, Tokyo, 13th November 2018 - Multi-Model Database Management Systems: A Look Forward
Paper by Zhen Hua Liu, Jiaheng Lu, Dieter Gawlick, Heli Helskyaho, Gregory Pogossiants, Zhe Wu - Big Data and the Multi-model Database
DataSciCon presentation by Heli Helskyaho
Coming Soon
- Baruch Sadogursky, Leonid Igolnik, and Viktor Gamov discuss DevOps, streaming, liquid software, and observability in this podcast captured during Oracle Code One 2018
- What’s Up with Serverless? A panel discussion of where Serverless fits in the IT landscape.
- JavaScipt Development and Oracle JET. A discussion of the evolution of JavaScript development and the latest features in Oracle JET.
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