Technological and coding misadventures!
I wrote about consistent hashing in 2013 when I worked at Basho, when I had started a series called “Learning About Distributed Databases” and today I’m kicking that back off after a few years (ok, after 5 or so years!) with this post on consistent hashing. As with Riak… Continue reading
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
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
Recently my friend swung by to record a Twitch stream on setting up the network, hardware, OS loads, PXE boot, and related items for the cluster in the office. Here’s a rundown of notes, details, and related links and such from the video, and as icing on the cake, here’s the video after some edits.... Continue reading
I’m excited to announce several new speakers coming to Seattle. Meet Karthik Ramasamy, Joseph Jacks, and Luc Perkins. They’re going to cover a range of technologies, but to list just a few; Heron, messaging, queueing, streaming, Apache Cassandra, Apache Pulsar, Prometheus, Kubernetes, and others. Everybody meet Karthik Ramasamy! Karthik Ramasamy is the co-founder of Streamlio... Continue reading
