How to design large-scale, database-driven applications

More than 90% of the bottlenecks in modern applications are attributed to databases. Very often, performance and scaling issues come from poorly designed databases.

1. How do you decide which database engine to use – RDBS or NoSQL database?
2. How do you make sure your application scales well with the current database engine?
3. How to identify bottlenecks in the database layer?
4. Is there a first principles approach to think about databases?

Swanand Pagnis, Srihari Sriraman and Nivedita Priyadarshini discuss their experiences and on designing database-driven large-scale applications and scaling them with Anand Chitipothu.

Session details and comments on: https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/scaling-databases/