I’ve been putting together a list of conferences that I want to aim to attend this coming year. I made it, then thought, “somebody else could use this list probably” so here it is. If you think of any other specific conferences I ought to add and attend please leave a comment. Enjoy! March 7-10... Continue reading →

The last post in this series is Distributed Database Things to Know: Consistent Hashing. Let’s talk about the analogy of Apache Cassandra Datacenter & Racks to actual datacenter and racks. I kind of enjoy the use of the terms datacenter and racks to describe architectural elements of Cassandra. However, as time moves on the relationship... Continue reading →

Over the last week I had the privilege and adventure of coming out to Chicago and Dallas to teach about operations and security capabilities of DataStax Enterprise. More about that later in this post, first I’ll elaborate on and answer the following: What is DataStax Developer Day? Why would you want to attend? Where are... Continue reading →

I ran into this issue recently. The “Invalid JWT Signature.” error while running some Terraform. It appeared to occur whenever I was setting up a bucket in Google Cloud Platform to use for a back-end to store Terraform’s state. In console, here’s the exact error. My first quick searches uncovered some Github issues that looked... Continue reading →

NOTE: Video toward the bottom of the post with the timeline so you can navigate into certain points of the video where I speak to different topics. Cluster Nodes Currently First I start out this session with a simple issue I ran into the previous night. The fact that a variable in the name of... Continue reading →