In 1979 Unix v7 started being distributed with the original Bourne Shell. Simply, it’s a program that sits at /bin/sh and runs in the terminal. You may ask, what’s the difference between a shell and the terminal? Continue reading →

I wrote about consistent hashing in 2013 when I worked at Basho, when I had started a series called “Learning About Distributed Databases” and today I’m kicking that back off after a few years (ok, after 5 or so years!) with this post on consistent hashing. As with Riak… Continue reading →

Wrapped up another Twitch stream (follow here) and streamed live via YouTube where the video is now (subscribe here, video here). However the more interesting part IMHO was where I broke down a few key parts of the application building features around file writes, reads, JSON marshalling, and some other functionality. I also put together... Continue reading →

Talking About Types, Variables, Pointers, and More In my endeavor to get more of the specifics of Go figured out, I’ve been diving a bit more in depth to each of the specific features, capabilities, and characteristics of the language. I’ll be doing the same for Cassandra over the coming months and producing a blog... Continue reading →