The data is no longer small. The world's largest enterprises now manage databases measured in the trillions of rows. The curve no longer looks flat. The asymptotic wall is visible, and the cost of running into it is measurable in revenue, patient outcomes, regulatory penalties, and competitive position. Beyond the Asymptote is the executive case for addressing that cost at the correct level - the architecture level - rather than continuing to compensate for it at the infrastructure level. ...

Database performance has a ceiling. Every engineer who has built a data-intensive system at scale has encountered it - the moment when adding hardware, adding indexes, or adding replicas stops improving the situation, and the latency curve begins its inexorable upward bend. The wall is not a bug. It is the mathematically predictable consequence of building on data structures whose query complexity grows with data volume. Volume 2 is the engineering companion to the executive case made in V...

Robert T. KiyosakiRobert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad - the international runaway bestseller that has held a top spot on the New York Times bestsellers list for over six years - is an investor, entrepreneur and educator whose perspectives on money and investing fly in the face of conventional wisdom. He has, virtually single-handedly, challenged and changed the way tens of millions, around the world, think about money.In communicating his point of view on why 'old' advic...

Dolf De Roos, the best-selling author of Real Estate Riches and The Wealth Magnet, made an amazing discovery: when he began teaching his real estate students the foundational beliefs that all rich people share, his students success rate in real estate went from 5% to over 80%! Now, in this all-new program How To Think Like a Wealthy Person, Dolf steps outside of his role as an international real estate investor and global entrepreneur to teach you how to develop a wealthy person’s mindset....

Duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was a French soldier, diplomat and noted diarist. A French courtier during the 18th century, today he's best known for the comprehensive multi-volume memoirs, which depict life in France at the time. He was an indefatigable writer, and he began very early to record all the gossip he collected, all his interminable legal disputes over precedence, and a vast mass of unclassified material. He is petty, unjust to private enemies and to those who ...

After the real estate crash of 2007, most people—both the so-called “experts” and amateur investors alike—thought the opportunity to make money in real estate had passed for good. However, as it turns out, just when all of those people were leaving the market, the true real estate investors were buying up as many properties as they could, realizing that they were buying “on sale.” They didn’t fall for the myth that “Real Estate is No Longer a Good Investment.” In this enlightening audio pr...

You’ve probably heard the often quoted statistic about entrepreneurial businesses: “95% of all new businesses will fail in their first five years.” However, what you probably don’t know is that, of those businesses that last past five years, the vast majority of those will fail in the next five years after that! Why is this? Pure and simple---competition. In a world where it is easier than ever before to start a business in the U.S., it takes little time for a competitor to enter your fiel...