Pramod Sadalage is
one of the leading innovators of evolutionary database
design.
Our profession seems to be constantly hampered by the
communication barriers we
erect for ourselves. For enterprise systems one of the most annoying
barriers is the one between application developers and database
people. Although much of my early years involved
databases and data modeling, my involvement with
object-orientation cast me firmly into the application
development side. As a consequence I haven't spent much time talking
to people from the database community. On January 9 I get a rare opportunity to fix that as I'll be
speaking at my local chapter of DAMA with my colleague Pramod
Sadalage. Pramod played a central role in the development of
evolutionary database design techniques in ThoughtWorks as a DBA who
closely works with development teams. His also written valuable
books on Refactoring
Databases and Continuous
Database Integration. So, as you might have gathered, he knows
all the material backwards and I'm glad to be invited along for the
ride. We'll be talking about database refactoring and techniques for
evolutionary database design. It will be interesting to see how this
talk is received. I'm told that these topics are still seen as highly
controversial in many parts of the data community, yet these are
techniques that are so usual for ThoughtWorks that they are just
part of the furniture of our development projects. Looking further out - I'll be appearing in London again for QCon. I'll
update this page later with more details about what I'll be doing
there.
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