The End of Complexity: How Simple Services are Reshaping Databases and the Enterprise

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Argues that database complexity is being outsourced to simple services and shows a concrete product that unites five query types — key‑value, full‑text search, graph, time‑ordered events and geolocation — exposed via a HTTP REST API with no local software to install. Cites about 25 new databases in the last seven years and examples like Twilio Stripe SendGrid and AWS as models of relocated complexity. Claims unit pricing around $10 per million queries and a private‑cloud option.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:24What is Orchestra
3. 2:01Lord XAR
4. 3:21Companies think complexity is how value is added
5. 3:43We fetishize complexity
6. 5:25Complex code
7. 6:32The software revolution
8. 8:31The nature of the firm
9. 10:53Using external services
10. 11:19Databases
11. 11:39Databases in 2005
12. 12:18Databases in 2013
13. 15:09Two Types of Databases
14. 15:45Key Value Databases
15. 16:52Solar Cloud
16. 20:04Graph Databases
17. 22:58Paradox of Choice
18. 23:37Cloud Cloud
19. 24:07Imager
20. 24:42Distribution of Complexity
21. 25:24Manual vs Automatic
22. 26:21Google
23. 27:10Design Systems and Economics
24. 27:52Where is Complexity Located
25. 29:44leverage
26. 31:27Twilio
27. 32:25Stripe
28. 33:20SendGrid
29. 37:03Orchestra Dashboard
30. 37:30Ops with Code Examples
31. 38:39REST API
32. 39:28Age Range Query
33. 39:40Query Expressions
34. 40:38Events Graph
35. 41:04Efficiency Matters
36. 41:46Where does your organization derive value
37. 42:40AWS can get too expensive
38. 42:50Get started

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