Trip Time. Today’s trip care of Alaska Airlines Flight 2 out of SEATAC Airport (Seattle & Tacoma’s airport) to National (Reagan) in Alexandria, Virginia. I’ll be staying there and commuting daily across the Potomoc River to Gaylord Resort and Convention Center (at National Harbor). I decided I’d write up something about this trip for a... Continue reading →

Welcome to another metal Monday morning wake up call. Here’s your dose, get going, may your thrashing code be the best ever! Unearth is back with some Incinerate! If you dig Adele, here’s a version of the song Hello that’ll go over better for the metal inclined. Then for a little melodic death metal, check... Continue reading →

This past week the O’Reilly Velocity and Software Architecture Conferences took place. I’ve attended both before, the 2nd time for Velocity in San Jose and the 2nd time for Software Architecture, however this time in San Jose and the last I attended was in London. The locations for these conferences dictate much about what is... Continue reading →

A few weeks back I started working on a schema migration tool for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. Just for context, here are the short definitions of what each of the elements of CaSMa are. Apache Cassandra Definition: Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source, distributed, wide column store, NoSQL database management system designed to... Continue reading →

A Few Trip Details Recently I spoke (video below, plus others) at DevOps Days YVR. YVR is the airport code for Vancouver BC, thus the use of YVR in the DevOps Day name and Twitter handle (@DevOpsDaysYvr). I always love to travel to Vancouver BC for a whole multitude of reasons. The city is beautiful,... Continue reading →