Delphix Continuous Data Integration
“You never develop code without version control, why do you develop your database without it?” - Alex Soto Applications are the nexus of the modern enterprise. They simplify operations, speed execution, and drive competitive advantage. Accelerating the application lifecycle means accelerating the business. Organizations depend on rapid iteration as the foundation of agile development. This had [read more]
Delphix and Flash
I started working with flash in 2006 — fortunate timing as flash was just starting to take hold in the enterprise. I started asking customers I’d visit about flash. I’ll always remember the response from an early adopter when I asked about how he planned on using the new, expensive storage, “We just bought it, [read more]
Agile Data Technology
The Requirements for Agile Data Applications are the nexus of the modern enterprise. They simplify operations, speed execution, and drive competitive advantage. Accelerating the application lifecycle means accelerating the business. Increasingly, organizations turn to public and private clouds, SaaS offerings, and outsourcing to hasten development and reduce risk, only to find themselves held hostage by [read more]
A High Performance Architecture for Virtual Databases
Delphix completely changes the way companies do business by removing critical bottlenecks in development productivity. Gone are the days when a simple database clone operation from production to development takes hours or even days. With Delphix database virtualization, cloning of Oracle databases becomes a fast and practically free operation. Additionally, infrastructure costs can be drastically [read more]
The Power of Agile Data
Apple’s singular focus on consumer usability has had a widespread impact on the future of enterprise applications and systems. The proliferation of easy to use apps on mobile phones, tablets, and other devices has reset consumer expectations worldwide. The lesson we’ve learned from great products is that our time matters. We want our apps and [read more]
Delphix 3.1 (Betelgeuse)
A couple weeks ago, we hit another big milestone by shipping our latest major release, 3.1 (engineering codename: Betelgeuse). With this release, we’ve added full support for Microsoft SQL server databases in Delphix. In addition to that, we’ve also made several improvements to the product, including replication enhancements, improved networking configuration options, and a large [read more]
Delphix Version 3.0
Last week we released Delphix Version 3.0, which extends Delphix database virtualization technology to Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). As with previous releases, the newest version of our server includes a number of innovative features, a comprehensive list can be found here. Along with our focus on rolling out new functionality, [read more]
Behind the Music: The Delphix node.js CLI
As I indicated in a previous post, the new Delphix CLI is a node.js application that runs locally when the user logs into the system. User documentation can be found in the CLI User Guide, but I thought it would be interesting to explore how we ended up with the CLI we have today given [read more]
Webex utilities
I wish that none of our customers encountered problems with our product, but they do, and when they do our means for remotely accessing their systems is often via a Webex shared screen. We remotely control their Delphix server to collect data (often using DTrace). While investigating a customer issue recently I developed a couple [read more]
Engineer Anti-Patterns
The other week I had a particularly disappointing discussion with a potential new hire. I typically describe our engineering organization at Delphix as a bottoms-up meritocracy where smart people seize opportunities to impact the company through through thoughtful execution and data-driven methodology (a.k.a. buzzword bingo gold). In this case, after hours of discussions, I couldn’t [read more]