Name: Ramji Narasimhan
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Bio: Senior Technology Consultant, Virtusa Corporation . Ramji has extensive experience in architecture, design and implementation of enterprise applications in scientific, intellectual property, and pharmaceutical domains. He has been actively working on a highly scalable next generation platform, which will provide a framework for creating content rich search applications for high profile client using spring, JQuery, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services and FAST ESP. Ramji specializes in consulting J2EE technologies, software design and development process. Ramji has a Masters degree in Computer Application from Madras University, Chennai, India.
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Facebook-like scalability with NoSQL
April 5th, 2011With the world becoming connected through social media platforms and the use of internet more extensive than ever, there has been a massive explosion of data and content. This has led to an unprecedented need for scaling solutions that store and process data. The traditional approach to address such data growth is to buy progressively more powerful hardware until the database can serve all the traffic.
Even larger companies have dealt with the horror of this scalability as they resorted to using traditional relational databases, eventually hitting limits that were unviable both financially and operationally. Google once ran off of 40,000 MySQL installations and Facebook was at one point spending $1M per month for specialized database hardware to serve their pictures. These unviable solutions led to a re-evaluation of existing database technologies and led to the Not-Only-SQL (NoSQL) movement. Read the rest of this entry “
