The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...

I started out in Database Design early in my application development career. I still remember being issued with an official IBM stencil for drawing Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs). Change ...

Simply put, microservices aren't monoliths. And although many microservices are based on them, they are not just container-based applications. Microservices are vastly different than what most ...

In this paper we introduce a method for platform-based design and integration of a System on Chip (SoC) using a centralized design meta-database from which all related design data such as EDA tool ...

Denormalization helps to address a fundamental fact in databases: slow read and join operations. Imagine a fruit seller has two daily lists: one of in-stock fruit and another with the market prices of ...