What does it mean to be a software developer at a time when AI can write code? I’ve been experimenting with AI tools to answer that question for myself. I’ve found what others have concluded: LLM-powered AI tools can be…
In today’s data-driven world, agility isn’t just a competitive advantage—it’s a necessity. Organizations are increasingly building data hubs to break down data silos from across the enterprise, enabling better analytics, faster decision-making, and more responsive operations. But as any data…
When it comes to Big Data initiatives, selecting the right tools, platforms, and architectures is important. Often overlooked is the importance of getting your team on board with the project and the approach. Gaining buy-in across business units is critical…
MarkLogic supports two native languages, XQuery and JavaScript. XQuery is a very natural way to work with XML, just as JavaScript is a very natural way to work with JSON. However, sometimes it’s useful to cross over and work with…
The Data Hub Framework is a feature recently added to MarkLogic that makes it easier to gather data from a variety of sources and build a common representation across the original formats. I learned some useful things about working with…
MarkLogic, as a multi-model database, can store data both as documents and as triples. We model entities as documents. Over time, the way we’ve modeled relationships has changed. In the Beginning Prior to MarkLogic 7, relationships were modeled by including…
This post is an excerpt from a book I’m working on: MarkLogic for Node.js Developers. This section is part of a chapter on Data Modeling, falling after a comparison to relational database modeling and a discussion of denormalization. The goal…
Memoization is tracking partial solutions so that they don’t have to be recalculated. A good example of where this is handy is the Fibonacci sequence. You may remember that the definition of this is: F(n) = F(n -1) + F(n – 2)…
This post shows how to ingest JSON into MarkLogic 7 using mlcp. Unlike many, this one is very specific to MarkLogic 7. Since the release of MarkLogic 6, MarkLogic Content Pump (mlcp) has been the supported tool for importing, exporting, and…
My first effort with the DemoCat application had a pretty simple architecture: node hosted static resources and passed REST requests straight through to MarkLogic. This approach is more in keeping with the three-tier architecture that MarkLogic’s customers typically use, but…