- Surrogate keys on Delta at scale: identity columns, their concurrency limits and hash-key alternatives on Azure DatabricksDatabricks on Azure · 11 Nov 2026
- SQL Server In-Memory OLTP readiness checklist: memory sizing, durability, hash buckets, retries and operationsDatabases · 9 Nov 2026
- Advisory: adopt an off-the-shelf copilot, extend it, or build your own assistantAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: agents or workflows - when to let the model decide the steps, and how much autonomy to giveAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: ALB, NLB, API Gateway, CloudFront or Global Accelerator - choosing the AWS entry pointAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: batch, micro-batch or streaming - deciding how fresh data really needs to beData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a data platform - Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric or a cloud-native warehouseData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a DR pattern per workload on Azure - backup-restore, pilot light, warm standby or active-activeAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a DR pattern per workload on OCI - from backup copies to active standbyOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a managed MySQL service - RDS for MySQL, Aurora MySQL, Azure Flexible Server or HeatWaveDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a managed PostgreSQL service - RDS, Aurora, Azure Flexible Server, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB or OCIDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a MongoDB shard key - cardinality, frequency, monotonic keys and reshardingDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a Redis topology - standalone, replicas with Sentinel, Redis Cluster or a managed serviceDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a self-hosted LLM serving stack - vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM/Triton, TGI, Ollama or llama.cppAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a vector store - pgvector, Azure AI Search, OpenSearch, Qdrant, Milvus or a managed vector databaseAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an AWS database - RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB or ElastiCache/MemoryDBAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an Azure database service - SQL Database, Managed Instance, SQL on VM, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Cosmos DBAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an ingestion pattern per source - CDC, batch extracts, APIs, files or eventsData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an LLM for a use case - hosted or open-weight, model size, and selecting by evaluationAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an Oracle Database service - Autonomous, Base Database, Exadata or Database@Azure/AWS/GoogleOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing AWS compute - EC2, ECS on Fargate or EC2, EKS, or LambdaAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing AWS storage - S3, EBS, EFS or the FSx familyAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing Azure compute - VMs, App Service, Container Apps, AKS or FunctionsAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing Azure regions - residency, latency, zones, service availability and capacityAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing Azure storage - Blob, Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files, managed disks or Elastic SANAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing compute on Azure Databricks - serverless, job clusters, all-purpose clusters, SQL warehouses and poolsDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing MySQL high availability - async replication, semi-sync, InnoDB Cluster, Galera or a managed serviceDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing OCI compute - VMs, bare metal, OKE, Container Instances or FunctionsOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing OCI storage - Block Volume, File Storage, Object Storage tiers or LustreOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing the entry point on OCI - Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, API Gateway, WAF and DNS steeringOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing where to run on OCI - regions, sovereign realms, Dedicated Region and Cloud@CustomerOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing around Azure quotas, service limits and capacityAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing for Availability Zone failure on AWS - static stability and zonal shiftAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Front Door, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Traffic Manager or API Management - choosing the traffic entry pointAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: multi-tenant design on PostgreSQL - database per tenant, schema per tenant or shared tables with row-level securityDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: RAG, fine-tuning or long context - choosing how to give a model your knowledgeAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Redis caching patterns - cache-aside, write-through, TTLs, invalidation and stampede protectionDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs or Storage Queues - choosing Azure messagingAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: SQL Server Standard or Enterprise edition - deciding by the features and limits you actually needDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis or MSK - choosing AWS messaging and streamingAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Streaming, Queue, Notifications, Events or Connector Hub - choosing OCI messaging and integrationOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Unity Catalog across regions - one metastore per region, cross-region sharing and residencyDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: where to run Oracle Database in the cloud - OCI services, Oracle Database@Azure/AWS, RDS for Oracle or VMsDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- AI kill switches explained: the six levels you can switch off and how to design each oneAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Transformation: taking a GenAI proof of concept to production without rebuilding it twiceAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- AWS DR strategies compared: backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-siteAWS · 22 Oct 2026
- Lakehouse foundation: medallion layers, storage layout and naming that scaleData Platform · 22 Oct 2026
- OCI high availability basics: availability domains vs fault domainsOCI · 22 Oct 2026