Schema Evolution Patterns

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If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code.

Alex Rasmussen is an expert in helping teams through these struggles. His talk will examine database schema changes and API versioning as two instances of schema evolution: how your systems respond when the structure of your structured data changes. Alex will go through both general principles like schema compatibility and specific techniques to help you learn:

Recognizing what makes schema changes easy or hard
Handling hard schema changes safely
Knowing what questions to ask to help your teams reason about schema evolution up-front

This is an important topic for technology leaders to understand in order to understand and help their teams navigate one of the tougher issues they face.

July 10th, 2019 11:00AM PDT, 2:00PM EDT, 7:00PM BST

Brought to you by:

Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk

Alex Rasmussen is a data engineering consultant. Previously, he was VP of engineering at Freenome, an AI genomics company, and an early employee at Trifacta, a pioneer in the data wrangling space. He holds a PhD from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), where his dissertation focused on highly efficient large-scale data processing systems. While at UCSD, he led the TritonSort project, which set several world records in large-scale sorting.

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