https://riley.thecsillags.com/categories/storage/ Recent content in Storage on about:rileycsillag fka drewcsillag Hugo en-us Mon, 25 May 2015 12:00:00 +0000 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2015-05-25-storage-system-design-part-1/ Mon, 25 May 2015 12:00:00 +0000 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2015-05-25-storage-system-design-part-1/ <p>When designing storage systems for applications, not building something like a SQL/NoSQL database, I&rsquo;m talking the layer/logic that goes on top, you have to consider a whole bunch of things if you want to build the &ldquo;right thing(TM)&rdquo; for your application.</p> <p>In part one, we&rsquo;ll be considering the simple cases (spoiler: most cases are simple) and SQL databases, in part 2 we&rsquo;ll be considering NoSQL databases.</p> <!-- more --> <p>Even with various considerations to think about, hard and fast rules about datastores tend to get very difficult, as the various considerations can push things around quite a bit as to how to best implement them for today while taking tomorrow into account.</p>