To a hammer, everything is a nail: Choosing the right tool for your business problems (sponsored by Microsoft)
The emergence of the cloud combined with open source software ushered in an explosive use of a broad range of technologies. Tobias Ternstrom explains why you should step back and attempt to objectively evaluate the problem you are trying to solve before choosing the tool to fix it.
| Talk Title | To a hammer, everything is a nail: Choosing the right tool for your business problems (sponsored by Microsoft) |
| Speakers | Tobias Ternstrom (Microsoft) |
| Conference | Strata Data Conference |
| Conf Tag | Big Data Expo |
| Location | San Jose, California |
| Date | March 6-8, 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | |
| Video | Talk Video |
The world once ran almost exclusively on filesystems and relational databases. The relational database was the “hammer” of its time, used for almost any data-related problem, irrespective of its capabilities. The emergence of the cloud combined with open source software ushered in an explosive use of a broad range of technologies—NoSQL, big data, the list goes on. All of a sudden, you didn’t have to use a hammer for your every data need but could instead pick and choose your tools based on specific problems you were trying to address. So what happened? It turns out lots of us developed a taste for a new favorite hammer and once again started treating every problem like it was a nail. Tobias Ternstrom explains why you should step back and attempt to objectively evaluate the problem you are trying to solve before choosing the tool to fix it. This keynote is sponsored by Microsoft.
