Big Data and Microservices
While the industry tends to gather (and refer to) data collections in bigger and bigger terms – warehouses, streams, lakes, deltas – they tend to go into the opposite direction when talking about computing (VMs, containers, functions).
These trends are just a reflection of the dichotomy between storage and computing concepts, although on the competencies side there seems to be a similarity in the way some components are treated.
We will try to understand if the concepts employed on both the computing side as well as the storage side are in any way correlated and if moving up and down between them comes with any downsides. We will also discuss what are the triggers of this evolutionary move.