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Speaking to a technical conference 19 Mar 2012 | 11:01 am
I just got back from PyCon, and as with all conferences where the talks are delivered by engineers instead of professional speakers, we had a mixed bag. Some talks were great; others made me get my la...
Thinkpad 420s review 3 Feb 2012 | 01:23 pm
In the last three years my primary machines have run OS X, Linux, Windows, OS X, and now Windows again, in that order. The observant reader may note, "That's a lot of machines in three years." It is, ...
On applying for jobs 20 Nov 2011 | 07:24 am
A friend asks, If [I see a] job I could do, even though I don't meet the stated requirements, should I apply anyway? Short answer: yes. Longer answer: companies are all over the map here, although i...
Apache Cassandra: 2010 in review 5 Jan 2011 | 08:53 am
In 2010, Apache Cassandra increased its momentum as the leading scalable database. Here is a summary of the notable activity in three areas: code, community and controversy. As always, comments are we...
And now for something completely different 27 Apr 2010 | 07:29 am
A month ago I left Rackspace to start Riptano, a Cassandra support and services company. I was in the unusal position of being a technical person looking for a business-savvy co-founder. For whatever...
Cassandra: Fact vs fiction 8 Apr 2010 | 04:37 am
Cassandra has seen some impressive adoption success over the past months, leading some to conclude that Cassandra is the frontrunner in the highly scalable databases space (a subset of the hot NoSQL c...
Cassandra in Google Summer of Code 2010 31 Mar 2010 | 02:48 am
Cassandra is participating in the Google Summer of Code, which opened for proposal submission today. Cassandra is part of the Apache Software Foundation, which has its own page of guidelines up for st...
Cassandra in action 25 Mar 2010 | 02:41 am
There's been a lot of new articles about Cassandra deployments in the past month, enough that I thought it would be useful to summarize in a post. Ryan King explained in an interview with Alex Popesc...
Why your data may not belong in the cloud 16 Mar 2010 | 09:19 am
Several of the reports of the recently-concluded NoSQL Live event mentioned that I took a contrarian position on the "NoSQL in the Cloud" panel, arguing that traditional, bare metal servers usually ma...
Distributed deletes in the Cassandra database 9 Feb 2010 | 07:06 am
Handling deletes in a distributed, eventually consistent system is a little tricky, as demonstrated by the fairly frequent recurrence of the question, "Why doesn't disk usage immediately decrease when...
