Creating Distributed Database Application Starter Kits

I’ve boarded a bus, and as always, when I board a bus I almost always code. Unless of course there are people I’m hanging out with then I chit chat, but right now this is the 212 and I don’t know anybody on this chariot anyway. So into the code I go. I’ve been re-reviewing... Continue reading →

Cedrick Lunven on Creating an API for your database with Rest, GraphQL, gRPC

Here’s a talk Cedrick Lunven (who I have the fortune of working with!) about creating API’s for your database, your distributed database. He starts out with a few objectives for the talk: Provide you a working API implementing Rest, gRPC, and GraphQL. Give implementation details through Demo. Reveal hints to choose and WHY, (specifically to... Continue reading →

KubeCon 2018 Mission Objectives: Is the developer story any better?

This is my second year at KubeCon. This year I had a very different mission than I did last year. Last year I wanted to learn more about services meshes, what the status of various features around Kubernetes like stateful sets, and overall get a better idea of what the overall shape of the product... Continue reading →

Property Graph Modeling with an FU Towards Supernodes – Jonathan Lacefield

Some notes along with this talk. Which is about ways to mitigate super nodes, partitioning strategies, and related efforts. Jonathan’s talk is vendor neutral, even though he works at DataStax. Albeit that’s not odd to me, since that’s how we roll at DataStax anyway. We take pride in working with DSE but also with knowing... Continue reading →

Twitz Coding Session in Go – Cobra + Viper CLI with Initial Twitter + Cassandra Installation

Part 2 of 3 – Coding Session in Go – Cobra + Viper CLI for Parsing Text Files, Retrieval of Twitter Data, Exports to various file formats, and export to Apache Cassandra. UPDATED PARTS: Twitz Coding Session in Go – Cobra + Viper CLI for Parsing Text Files Twitz Coding Session in Go – Cobra... Continue reading →