Over the past few months I’ve picked up a number of libraries in the Go ecosystem to help me get work done around database engineering. These libraries are ones that I have used to do a range of work primarily around Apache Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise, PostgreSQL, and to a lesser degree MS SQL Server, MySQL,... Continue reading →

Some of the names used can seem to conflate the actual purpose of a feature’s functionality in distributed databases. However gossip is pretty spot on. Within a group of people gossiping the purpose is to find out each other’s business. What’s going on with Frank, who’s he seeing, and Sally started a business, say what!... Continue reading →

Snitches. What a great name for a feature right? I’d bring up the Harry Potter thing, but I’m gonna let that one fly. (get it, it flies!) A snitch determines where nodes go among the racks and datacenters. This is the Cassandra specific racks and datacenters however, so check out my previous post on datacenters... 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 →

Project Repo: Interoperability Black Box First steps. Let’s get .NET installed and setup. I’m running Ubuntu 18.04 for this setup and start of project. To install .NET on Ubuntu one needs to go through a multi-command process of keys and some other stuff, fortunately Microsoft’s teams have made this almost easy by providing the commands... Continue reading →