In the previous post we presented problems encountered by our client TescaraHats (name changed for commercial reasons), a European market leader in manufacturing customized hats. We argued that while improving search engine ranking is important, you should never forget about the performance and usability in an e-commerce application. In this episode of our e-commerce performance series, we will analyze the impact that the backend performance has on your online sales.

Programmers generally recognize that SQL can be optimized: experts often rewrite queries to take only a fraction of the time of their originals. It's not just *queries*, though: database writes deserve attention along with reads. Be on the lookout for ways to improve updates and inserts, along with retrievals.

Pavlo Baron presented this 45-minute lecture on Big Data minus Java/Hadoop at NoSQL Matters.

Many well-publicized big-data stories are like Barbie dolls. They’re great sources of inspiration, but you can’t realistically model your own path to success on that example.

Data scientist Monica Rogati discusses data scaling at LinkedIn and reflects on the evolving role of the data scientist.

What are the requirements to NoSQL, Graph Databases exist in Enterprises? I give my point of view on my post!

Overtime: The NBA CIO on Big Data, infrastructure, and what it takes to create happy basketball fans.

I’ve been playing around with modelling a product taxonomy and one thing that I wanted to do was find out the full path where a product sits under the tree.

The Drupal ecosystem is bursting at the seams with modules. The ease of extending Drupal means it can be non-intuitive for developers to write well-performing modules.