Re: ZODB Talk Slides

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Christopher Lozinski <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Here are the updated slides for my ZODB Ecosystem talk.  I will be giving
> it at PyCON UK on Friday.
>
>  https://pythonlinks.info/presentations/zodbtalk.pdf
>

This is looking better and better.  I think there's too much focus on
applications in the last part. (zcml, really?)



>
>
> I created  a simple image for ZRS.  It adds in Jim Fulton’s idea of using
> it as a guaranteed message delivery system for driving Elastic Search or
> PostgreSQL.
>

This may be misleading. Using replication to update external indexes is
only an idea. It's never been tried afaik.

...


> After my second talk they asked about indexes.  Indexes are so central to
> relational databases.  So I added in a slide about repoze.catalog.
>

You should also mention Newt, which lets you index with Postgres. And you
should mention various tools that let you use external indexes.



> I wonder what the next missing question will be?  I wonder what it takes
> to actually get users to use the ZODB?
>

IMO, the main selling point is ease of use. You touch on that in your
slides. There are serveral facets of this:

- transparent persistence
- transactionally-consistent caching
- Easy testing
- Garbage collection

Jim

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