Wrap Up for August of 2018

The combined Seattle Scalability + Cassandra meetup, which I dubbed Operations & Developers of Distributed Systems, was a success. There was some awesome Twitter interactions too including Ashley Ratieri’s notes. I also posted a few pictures of the group. Fellow DataStaxian @nkmoha came into town to record the meetup, and I’ll be sure to get... Continue reading →

DSE6 + .NET v?

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 →

Chapter 2 in My Twitch Streaming

A while back I started down the path of getting a Twitch Channel started. At this point I’ve gotten a channel setup which I’ve dubbed Thrashing Code albeit it still just has “adronhall” all over it. I’ll get those details further refined as I work on it more. Today I recorded a new Twitch stream... Continue reading →

Distributed Systems: Cassandra, DataStax, a Short SITREP

SITREP = Situation Report. It’s military speak. 💂🏻‍♂️ Apache Cassandra is one of the most popular databases in use today. It has many characteristics and distinctive architectural details. In this post I’ll provide a description and some details for a number of these features and characteristics, divided as such. Then, after that (i.e. toward the... Continue reading →