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      Concepts

      The wisdom of Rick Rubin on creativity applies well beyond art
      February 7, 2024

      The wisdom of Rick Rubin on creativity applies well beyond art

      Regardless of whether or not we're formally making art, we are all living as artists.

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      Domain-Driven Data Modeling
      April 14, 2023

      Domain-Driven Data Modeling

      Traditional data modeling must evolve to remain relevant. There's a pragmatic way to perform data modeling, using our next-gen Hackolade Studio data modeling tool. We call this approach "Domain-Driven Data Modeling".

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      In NoSQL data modeling doesn't have to be logical
      April 11, 2023

      In NoSQL, data modeling doesn't have to be logical!

      Polyglot Data Modeling creates a level of technology-agnostic data modeling that sits across the traditional boundaries between conceptual/logical and logical/physical data modeling.

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      The 3 concerns in data modeling, and their value
      February 27, 2023

      The 3 concerns in data modeling, and their value

      Model, schema, metadata: they concern different teams.

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      Data Modeling and the eternal struggle between business & IT
      February 16, 2023

      Data Modeling and the eternal struggle between business & IT

      Similar to the fact that models represent a conversation between business and IT, you could argue the degree to which we have more or less schema in our NoSQL data stores is also representative of the interaction between IT and its systems.

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      The Agility Angst
      February 13, 2023

      Confusing words in Data Modeling

      Model, schema, metadata: these three terms articulate very different concepts in the data modeling profession, and as such, we should take deliberate care when using them

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      The Agility Angst
      January 24, 2023

      The Agility Angst

      Metadata-as-Code as the antidote to Agile Angst

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      The Modeling Mismatch
      January 18, 2023

      The Modeling Mismatch

      After having spent 10+ years in the wonderful world of Neo4j, I have been reflecting a bit about what it was that really attracted me personally, and many - MANY - customers as well, to the graph.

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      ChatGPT data modeling
      December 9, 2022

      The Wisdom of ChatGPT on Data Modeling

      ChatGPT is a natural language processing (NLP) tool that uses machine learning to generate human-like responses to text-based inputs. We asked some basic questions to ChatGPT about the field of data modeling. The unedited answers are impressive...

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      Next Gen Data Modeling
      September 1, 2022

      Why You Should Care about Data Modeling

      Data modeling is even more important today than before with relational databases. But we need a more nimble and focused kind of data modeling to fit the challenges of agile development, DevOps, cloud migrations, and digital transformations.

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      metadata-as-code
      August 21, 2021

      Metadata-as-Code

      Customers leverage the Command-Line Interface, invoking functions from a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, from a command prompt or with a Docker container. Combined with Git as repository for data models and schemas, users get change tracking, peer reviews, versioning with branches and tags, easy rollbacks, as well as offline mode.

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      Polyglot Data Modeling
      April 2, 2021

      Polyglot Data Modeling

      Polyglot Data Modeling is data modeling for polyglot persistence and communication. It is inspired by the role of logical data models, except that it allows denormalization, complex data types, and polymorphism.

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      From Traditional Data Modeling to NoSQL Schema Design
      June 3, 2018

      Data Modeling is Dead... Long Live Schema Design!

      Reality or not, the perception nowadays is that data modeling has become a bottleneck and doesn't fit in an agile development approach.

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      Current Hackolade targets
      March 29, 2018

      Is NoSQL dead?

      Reports of NoSQL's death are greatly exaggerated!...

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      Hackolade model dynamically generates MongoDB $jsonschema validator
      January 30, 2018

      Schema validation for a schemaless database: is it a contradiction?

      The MongoDB $jsonschema validator becomes the equivalent of a DDL (data definition language) for NoSQL databases, letting you apply just the right level of control to your database.

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      Hackolade generates code and documentation from easily maintained models
      July 28, 2017

      MongoDB Developer Productivity in an Agile World

      New-generation developer productivity tools allow for taking full advantage of agile development and MongoDB: IDE’s (Integrated Development Environments), GUI’s (Graphical User Interfaces), and data modeling software.

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      Data modeling for NoSQL
      April 19, 2017

      The Tao of NoSQL Data Modeling

      Data is a corporate asset, and insights on the data is even more strategic. Sometimes overlooked as a best practice, data modeling is critical to understanding data, its interrelationships, and its rules.

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      ERD for NoSQL
      March 31, 2017

      Even non-relational databases have relationships

      Isn't it ironic that a technology that bears the label of “schema-less” is also known for the fact that schema design is one of its toughest challenges? ...

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