Beyond Jurassic NoSQL: New Designs for a New World

We live in an age of rapid innovation, but our infrastructure shows signs of rust and old age. Under the shiny exterior of our new technology, some old and dusty infrastructure is carrying a weight it was never designed to hold. This is glaringly true in the database world, which remains dominated by databases architected for a different age. These legacy NoSQL databases were designed for a different (nascent) cloud, different hardware, different bottlenecks, and even different programming models.