The Lost Art of Database Design

The scalability of your application and your database is only as good as the database design you put behind it.  Designing your schema, the database structures, and planning for the future need to happen early and needs to evolve over time.  In today's rapid pace development cycles, the database design is often overlooked or even dismissed entirely.  Databases and marketing teams tout "Schemaless Designs", database as a service, and new tech that makes caring about databases a thing of the past.  I will explain why database design is as important as ever and I will give you the 8 things you need to design on every application regardless of which database or service you use.