Entity Framework- Is it the solution for all data access requirements?

With latest entity Framework (EF) releases and with the entire world moving to Object Relational Mappings for all the data access needs, it is quite normal for a developer to think that EF is the right choice before starting to design the data access layer. The latest release by Microsoft has made it easy for the developers to code and get started with Entity Framework. It is when someone starts writing the actual code that they realize that just EF may not actually be the right choice for all requirements.

MobileJira Launched for the Android Market!

Talentica’s Mobile Team launched an extremely useful app for all IT professionals who use Jira to track issues, bugs, tasks or deadlines for their projects.

EmailApptimizer: 'Break-through' in Mobile Marketing

One of our clients, TailoredMail recently unveiled their path breaking feature called EmailApptimizer. EmailApptimizer turns your emails, landing pages and microsites into instant mobile touch-screen applications.

Improve Performance with SQL Server 2012

Microsoft designed SQL Server 2012 as a threshold of technologies that would help deliver a major leap forward in performance. These improvements have, to a large extent, made customers rely on SQL Server 2012 to manage their explosive growth in data volume and complexity.

Get started with MongoDB in windows with .NET

MongoDB is currently one of the most popular NoSQL databases. The idea behind this post is to provide a concise document that will help you get started with MongoDB on Windows with .NET.

NoSQL...Hang on a sec

Since there is too much information available online, one has to carefully decide whether to go for NoSQL or not. And if you decide to use NoSQL, then which database or datastore should be the right choice for you.

CAP Theorem

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem) - In theoretical computer science the CAP theorem, also known as Brewer's theorem, states that it is impossible for a distributed computer system to simultaneously provide all three of the following guarantees: Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance.