If you’re interested in running data-intensive systems (think Apache Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise, Kafka, Spark, Tensorflow, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc) in Kubernetes this is a great talk. @Lenadroid covers what options are available in Kubernetes, how architectural features around pods, jobs, stateful sets, and replica sets work together to provide distributed systems capabilities. Other features she continues... 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 →
Over the last week I had the privilege and adventure of coming out to Chicago and Dallas to teach about operations and security capabilities of DataStax Enterprise. More about that later in this post, first I’ll elaborate on and answer the following: What is DataStax Developer Day? Why would you want to attend? Where are... Continue reading →
What is Riak? Who builds it? Who maintains it? Can I download it? How does it work? What are the features? Here’s the start of answers to these questions and more. First, the basic high level description: “Riak is an open source, highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed database.” That’s the first line you’ll read when checking... Continue reading →
Before diving into architecture, coding, descriptions and other things related to distributed computing over the coming months. It helps to become familiar with a language like Erlang. I’m going to dive immediately into getting Erlang up and running before any theory, description or otherwise, so following the most direct installation… Installing Erlang This is easy... Continue reading →
