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Data Patterns for the Edge: Data Localization, Privacy Laws, and Performance

With growing competition to get data that power experiences to the end-user closer and closer and the advent of local data privacy laws, let's look at different enterprise data patterns like “synchronous data retrieval”, “subsequent data retrieval” and “prefetch data retrieval” on data center.

Anoop Koloth
on Mar 21, 2022
.NET

Deep Diving into EF Core: Q&A with Jeremy Likness

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a cross-platform, extensible, open-source object-database mapper for .NET. Since its first release in 2016, EF Core evolved until reaching its current form: a powerful and lightweight .NET ORM. InfoQ interviewed Jeremy Likness, program manager for .NET Data at Microsoft, to understand more about EF Core and what we should expect for its next release later this year.

Jeremy Likness Arthur Casals
on May 12, 2021
Architecture & Design

Data Gateways in the Cloud Native Era

Data Gateways act like API Gateways but focus on access to the data aspect. A Data Gateway offers abstractions, security, scaling, federation, and contract-driven development features. There are many types of Data Gateways, from the traditional data virtualization technologies, to light GraphQL translators, cloud-hosted services, connection pools, and fully open source alternatives.

Bilgin Ibryam
on May 07, 2020
.NET

Preparing Entity Framework Core for Static Analysis and Nullable Reference Types

In this article we walk through the process of updating an EF Core 3.1 based DAL to adhere to modern best practices such as TreatWarningsAsErrors, FxCopAnalyzers, and C# 8’s nullable reference types.

Jonathan Allen
on Jan 07, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Columnar Databases and Vectorization

In this article, author Siddharth Teotia discusses the Dremio database which is based on Apache Arrow with vectorization capabilities.

Siddharth Teotia
on May 27, 2018
DevOps

GDPR for Operations

With GDPR, taking care of personal data is an organisation-wide responsibility, but in the operations we can provide a lot of supporting tools to help deal with the multiple facets of this problem.

Jon Topper
on Mar 10, 2018
DevOps

What Do Data Scientists and Data Engineers Need to Know about GDPR?

Andrew Burt on the implications of GDPR on data collection, storage and use for any organization dealing with customer data in the EU. Burt explains what's the minimum an org needs to pass the GDPR test, as well as how to take the opportunity to improve their overall data governance.

Andrew Burt
on Jan 27, 2018
Java

JPA 2.2 Brings Some Highly Anticipated Changes

Released this past summer, JPA 2.2 delivered some frequently requested enhancements, especially by providing better alignment with Java 8 features, such as support for the Date and Time API and the retrieval of a query result as a Stream.

Thorben Janssen
on Jan 25, 2018
Java

Introducing Reladomo - Enterprise Open Source Java ORM, Batteries Included! (Part 2)

Goldman Sachs is widely known as a leader in investment banking, but they are very much a leading technology firm as well. Continuing our exploration of Reladomo, the primary Java ORM used at GS and now open source, GS Technology Fellow, Mohammad Rezaei looks at advanced features, such as sharding, caching, bitemporal access, performance, and testing.

Mohammad Rezaei
on Jun 13, 2017
DevOps

Q&A with Immuta on the Implications of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

InfoQ talked with Immuta’s Andrew Burt and Steve Touw, to better understand the implications and challenges of the EU's Global Data Protection Regulation, which will come into effect in May 2018.

Manuel Pais
on Feb 10, 2017
.NET

Interview with Entity Modelling Tool Creator, Frans Bouma

Our first .NET interview of the year is with Frans Bouma of the entity modeling tool LLBLGen Pro. This tool has been around for almost as long as .NET itself, but being a commercial product it isn’t as well-known as the free alternatives.

Jonathan Allen
on Jan 06, 2017
.NET

Advanced Use Cases for the Repository Pattern in .NET

In our previous article, we looked at the basic patterns needed to implement a repository. In many cases these patterns were such a thin layer around the underlying data access technology they were essentially unnecessary. However, once you have a repository in place, many new opportunities become available.

Jonathan Allen
on Oct 25, 2016