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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 10:15am - 11:30am
Agile Design

Seeking the Agile Path through Database Design

Being first to market or meeting rapidly changing customer demands compels development teams to build systems while requirements are still being discovered. Developing a relational database design ahead of its requirements can paint you into a corner—with a product that suffers from legacy-like limitations. Jonathan Wiggs shares ideas to solve this problem in an agile way that provides both support for the present and flexibility for the unknown future. When a database design is trying to meet too many requirements, you can tie its architecture to product concepts and get answers to questions such as one database or many? Learn to balance design flexibility with operational requirements including understanding the role of disk storage and physical implementation across various technologies from the desktop to the cloud. Jonathan covers specifics including the proper use of minor entity tables, denormalization, and elastic scaling mechanisms. Join Jonathan to see how your data architecture can lead innovation rather than drag behind as an obstacle to success.

Jonathan Wiggs, Netmotion Wireless, Inc.

The data architect for Netmotion Wireless, Inc., Jonathan Wiggs is an accomplished software architect with significant experience in the fields of big data, Bayesian analytics, enterprise architecture, and cloud computing. Jonathan has helped launch startup companies including Jott Networks & RGB Labs, and has led engineering and research groups at companies such as Microsoft and Nuance. He enjoys writing, speaking, sharing his experiences with his peers, and giving back to the industry he has loved for more than twenty years.

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