Technological and coding misadventures!
Since the inception of my software engineering career, decades ago, I have enjoyed creating resilient software systems and building efficient engineering teams. I found that one of the most important aspects affecting the success of any project is how close engineering teams align with user and community needs. This is one of the reasons it’s... Continue reading
The next thing I wanted setup for my development workspace is a DataStax Enterprise Cluster. This will give me all of the Apache Cassandra database features plus a lot of additional features around search, OpsCenter, analytics, and more. I’ll elaborate on that in some future posts. For now, let’s get an image built we can... Continue reading
Prerequisites before all of this. Have a basic understanding of how to use Terraform and what it does. This is covered pretty well in the Hashicorp Docs here (single page read <5 minutes) and if you have a LinkedIn Learning account check out my Terraform course “Learning Terraform“. Beyond that some basic CLI/terminal knowledge, understand... Continue reading
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
Over the last few weeks the I’ve been putting together multi-cloud conversations and material related to multi-cloud implementation, conversations, and operational situations that exist today. I took a quick look at some of my repos on Github and realized I’d put together a multi-cloud Node.js sample app some time ago and should update it. I’ll... Continue reading
