This is the most inspiring thing I’ve seen all year (so far). Way back when, someone very wise told me, “Kevin, you should seriously think about getting into computers.” I had been hacking around with a music sequencing program on my Dad’s Apple ][+, and from them minute he said that to me, it stuck in the back of my mind; and ultimately determined the course of my professional life.
This video (put out by Code.org) absolutely hits the nail on the head. I hope that many kids, and really anyone looking for an inspiration to their next professional career direction, will see this and consider investigating software development.
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What about you? Are you inspired? Or do the feelings expressed in the video match what you’ve experienced like I have?
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Niklas Bjorkman wrote: Firstly I agree with your conclusion. NewSQL takes the best of the traditional databases and NoSQL databases to combine the benefits of both worlds. I do not agree that NewSQL vendors focus on giving scale-out features to transactional data. The NewSQL market is focusing on giving true ACID support combined with extreme performance, stepping away from the traditional relational structures in databases. A lot of developers appreciate the ease of accessing data using SQL and I think we will see more and more databases supporting standard SQL.
As you said - NewSQL databases often maintain the...
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