Cloud-Native Database Architecture
If you follow the cloud database market closely, you are sure to hear the phase "cloud native" often. But what does it mean? And why should we care?
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an industry group that advances cloud-native computing through open source initiatives, defines cloud native as including "containers, service meshes, micro-services, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs."
That's a high-level description of the software components, but I wanted to understand how cloud native applies to data warehouses. So I invited Mark Cusack, CTO of Yellowbrick Data, to join me on the Cloud Database Report Podcast. We talked about data architecture, Kubernetes, elasticity, and the separation of storage and compute, which Cusack described as "table stakes" to modern cloud data warehouses.
Listen to the Podcast: Yellowbrick CTO Mark Cusack - What is a Cloud-Native Data Warehouse?
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