Strata, Ninjas, Distributed Data Day, and Graph Day Trip Recap

This last week was a helluva set of trips, conferences to attend, topics to discuss, and projects to move forward on. This post I’ll attempt to run through the gamut of events and the graph of things that are transversing from the conference nodes onward! (See what I did there, yeah, transpiling that graph verbiage... Continue reading →

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 →

Thrashing Code Sessions via Twitch & Kick Ass Dis-Sys Meetup

Got some excellent coding and systems setup coming up in the next few days. Also a meetup on the 28th with Tim Kellogg and Alena Hall presenting on some interesting topics around distributed database data working on Kubernetes and WebAssembly of the hot temperament type. A new surprise guest addition on my Twitch channel that... 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 →