intermediate · cohort
NoSQL vs Relational Trade-offs
4 weeks · 5 hrs/week
Pick stores for workloads, not slogans. Caselets include session carts, user profiles, and metrics pipelines with concrete access patterns.
What ships in this outline
- Access pattern cards as the first artifact
- Consistency sketching on whiteboards (digital)
- Migration caution tales from anonymized teams
- Cost model worksheet (rough)
- Peer debate format with scoring rubric
Outcomes
- Recommend a store with three written trade-offs
- Flag a workload that will hurt in year two
- Draft a boundary diagram between services and stores
Lead mentor
Haruto Watanabe
Former data platform lead at a logistics SaaS; PostgreSQL contributor talks in Tokyo.
FAQ
We provide Dockerized samples; no paid Atlas/Elastic required.
Written architecture review, not a deployed cluster.
We do not certify you on any vendor exam.
Experience notes
“Debate week was loud but useful. I still disagree on document for profiles — and I can explain why now.”