Praise for Understanding Big Data Scalability
“This book is useful to anyone who works with data and wants to learn more about scaling. Cory helps you understand what causes databases to slow down as data volumes grow over time. He then reviews a number of strategies that you have at your disposal to manage the growth, including software and database tuning, hardware upgrades, read-replication, and ultimately horizontal partitioning of data.”
—Dan Lynn, cofounder of FullContact
“Understanding Big Data Scalability presents the fundamentals of scaling databases from a single node to large clusters. It provides a practical explanation of what Big Data systems are, and the fundamental issues to consider when optimizing for performance and scalability. ...
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