Beyond the Asymptote Volume I

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. Cedric Harris brings a rare combination to this argument: the operational credibility of a former Chief Architect at United Airlines who has lived the database performance problem at Fortune 20 scale, and the technical depth of someone who has spent four years rebuilding the database architecture from first principles.