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1. Quote of the Week

One other intriguing benefit of NoSQL that I started to unwitting benefit from recently is the ability to push data scheme concerns entirely to the application layer. In this scenario, the applications use a NoSQL database predominantly as a storage service, lightly structured by a few indexed key fields. The object structured data document within the payload becomes transparent to the database. The applications then assume the role of enforcing and understanding the data scheme.

This approach allows the application architect to encode the data structures and meaning directly in the code that creates and consumes the data. So data structure changes required for functional updates can be implemented, tested, and deployed in the application code base with no updates to the database layer at all. (Of course, a conversion of existing NoSQL data documents may be required in situations.)

In this NoSQL approach, the removed translation of object data scheme to a relational structure and, and then back to an object structure again is a very welcome relief as well. --use-the-index-luke.com

2. To Laugh or Cry?

• Is SQL a good place for business logic? (h/t Erwin Smout)
• Relational Databases Are Not Designed For Scale
• Why your next big database decision may be a graph

3. Online Debunkings

• The inevitable decline and fall of Hadoop
• Is database schema development really necessary for complex data-intensive applications
• Next Generation Databases - NoSQL, NewSQL, and Big Data

4. Elsewhere Of Interest

• Programmers Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers
• Operations costs are the Achilles' heel of NoSQL
• Why we need enterprise architects now more than ever

5. And now for something completely different

The PostWest

I have a question for Europe: How has the exchange of your Jews for Muslims worked out for you?   

• Belgium raises terror alert to highest level amid imminent threat
• Dutch Jewish school closed after anti-terrorist raid in ...
• Sweden Terror Threat Raised To Highest Lever Ever
• People in Copenhagen in shock over terror shootings

Yet you're still at it, bringing in millions of them, which is Why Europe's Jews Are Fleeing Once Again.  You're outraged when you are attacked, but not when Jews and Israelis die on a daily basis--they are fair game:

• Marseille teacher stabbed in face by IS sympathizers) 
• Five dead in Palestinian attacks in Tel Aviv, West Bank
• Teen girl among 4 wounded in stabbing attack in Kiryat Gat 
• Israeli fatally stabbed, three Palestinian attackers killed in West Bank
• Taxi driver tries to run over, stab Israelis in West Bank
• Former settler leader thwarts Palestinian knife attacker

and you blame them for both Islamist terror against you and themselves:

• Israeli-Palestinian conflict to blame for Paris attacks, says Dutch pol
• Israel slams Sweden for invoking Palestinian plight while discussing Paris attacks
• In Berlin, Europe's biggest department store takes settlement goods off shelves

No matter how anti-semitic you are and how much Muslim ass you kiss, you still don't get that it won't help you. But Jews are too instinctive and conveniently non-violent a target to give up.


It's not better in the US:

• U.S. Investigators Struggle to Track Homegrown ISIS Suspects

but

• US anthropological association moves closer to Israel boycott

Or consider the difference in reaction when a militant American Arab kid is killed by Israeli police and an American Jewish kid killed by Palestinian terror:

• US 'disappointed' no jail time for Israeli cop who beat American teen

but

• Silence of the doves

Anti-semitism? Nah, just real care for the plight of the Palestinians. And if you believe that, I have a tower in Paris and a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
  
Pinch me

• Iran's leader says US behind Paris terror attacks
• Op-ed in official PA daily Israel carried out Paris attacks 

Book of the week (order via the link to support this site)

Grandin, G.,KISSINGER'S SHADOW

Video of the week (must watch)

When Someone Said “Not All Muslims Are Bad”