The article examines the CAP Theorem and its impact on distributed systems, focusing on Apache Kafka, Flink, and Cassandra. It discusses trade-offs in consistency, availability, and partition tolerance, especially during network partitions. Moreover, it provides deployment strategies and mitigation techniques for challenges within these systems, including insights on Confluent Cloud’s management of CAP issues. Continue reading →

Some top database providers for various open source databases like MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Neo4j: Continue reading →

Hello to all the data curious, database lovers, and sciency datamungers! I have a small favor to ask of you all. At DataStax we just opened up our Apollo service i.e. “Apache Cassandra as a Service” i.e. DBaaS offering and I’m looking for people that want to test drive the database! Now, you don’t have... Continue reading →

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 →

Another flight down to the bay area. Today it was Alaska Air Flight 330 from Seattle to San Jose. It was mostly a clear day at start, with a solid layer of bright cloud cover exiting Washington on the way down to Oregon. As we crossed over that arbitrary human defined line of Oregon and... Continue reading →