by Erik Brandsberg, Chief Architect of Heimdall Data In using databases as a key component of internet infrastructure, IT departments may encounter the challenge of connection management. There are three areas where connection management can be an is...

Authored by Hiral Jasani & Dhruv Kumar Since we launched Databricks on Google Cloud earlier this year, we’ve been thrilled to see stories about the value this joint solution has brought to data teams across the globe. One of our favorite quotes is fr...

As streaming data expands its reach into virtually every industry, it is inevitable that we will encounter data that contains sensitive information, such as Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The sensiti<!-- --><!-- -->...

Background Horizontally scaling your SQL database involves separating the primary writer from read-only instances. This allows the primary to perform dedicated write operations while read queries are offloaded to separate replicas. However, this arch...

Application-database inefficiency (e.g. repeated queries, network latency) is a primary cause of performance bottlenecks. Query caching is used to improve database responsiveness and scale. But caching is not without its challenges; knowing what to c...