What could I do for you?

I’m in the process (with the team I work with) of trying to figure out what would be most useful to you, the community and its members in which we all work. Whether you’re a coder, working toward being a coder, programmer, engineer, or whatever it is that you aim for we want to know... Continue reading →

Setting Up Nodes, Firewall, & Instances in Google Cloud Platform

Here’s the run down of what I covered in the latest Thrashing Code Session (go subscribe here to the channel for future sessions or on Twitch). The core focus of this session was getting some further progress on my Terraform Project around getting a basic Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise Apache Cassandra Cluster up and running... Continue reading →

Thrashing Code Twitch Schedule September 19th-October 2nd

I’ve got everything queued back up with some extra Thrashing Code Sessions and will have some on the rails travel streams. Here’s what the schedule looks like so far. Today at 3pm PST (UPDATED: Sep 19th 2018) UPDATED: Video available https://youtu.be/NmlzGKUnln4 I’m going to get back into the roll of things this session after the... Continue reading →

Strata, Ninjas, Distributed Data Day, and Graph Day Trip Recap

This last week was a helluva set of trips, conferences to attend, topics to discuss, and projects to move forward on. This post I’ll attempt to run through the gamut of events and the graph of things that are transversing from the conference nodes onward! (See what I did there, yeah, transpiling that graph verbiage... Continue reading →

Wrap Up for August of 2018

The combined Seattle Scalability + Cassandra meetup, which I dubbed Operations & Developers of Distributed Systems, was a success. There was some awesome Twitter interactions too including Ashley Ratieri’s notes. I also posted a few pictures of the group. Fellow DataStaxian @nkmoha came into town to record the meetup, and I’ll be sure to get... Continue reading →