We hear a lot about how various different databases and storage methods work at massive scale, but that always comes at a massive engineering and ops cost - and for most companies, that's not what they need anyway.
We'll take a look at databases with the perspective of a smaller engineering team - from 1 to 100 people - and see how databases not only perform at scale, but also how they perform with rapid development, continuous deployment & smaller hardware requirements, and take a look at what Big Data really means anyway.
Andrew is a Django core developer and the primary author of both South and the new Django migrations framework. He's employed as a Senior Software Engineer on Eventbrite's Architecture team, and has spent much of the past decade making databases do things they were never designed for. In his spare time, he also enjoys archery and flies private planes.
