RIC ROBERTS

Founder and CTO of Swirrl, creators of PublishMyData.
Manchester-based Ruby, Rails & JavaScript freelancer.
Founding member of OpenDataManchester.

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Stardotstar blog article: Relax, Stop worrying about the structure of your data

I’ve been working as a Ruby developer with Manchester digital agency, Stardotstar, for a few months now. Last week, I wrote my first post on the new Stardotstar blog:

When thinking about web application design, it doesn’t take long before the realisation hits you: to achieve any kind of efficiency you need to ignore or abuse key principles of relational database design, employing strategies such as sharding your information across multiple databases, abandoning the use of transactions, and the wholesale denormalisation of data…

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