Moving Beyond the No/New/SQL Debate: Introducing the Application Data Layer

With the wide adoption of hosted commodity hardware, no-sql, REST, HTML5 and d3, we are entering a brave new world. Your data everywhere, thick browser clients, scalable backends, and no middle tier. I will discuss the Application Data Layer, bringing your database and applications to the edge. With origins in the Large Hadron Collider, Dynamo and CouchDB, Cloudant is the Akamai of dynamic content and application state. With two years in production at the largest scale, I will highlight customer use cases ranging from hyper-growth startups through Fortune 100.

Mike enjoys putting algorithms in the wild, solving problems for the first time, and building things. He honed his computing repertoire while studying the universe's fundamental particles and interactions as a physicist, most recently at the Large Hadron Collider where he cut his teeth on petabyte-per-second problems. At Cloudant he enjoys seeing his ideas transformed into superior code by an outstanding team. Outside of work he enjoys globetrotting and all things outdoors.