Technological and coding misadventures!
A few weeks back I started working on a schema migration tool for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. Just for context, here are the short definitions of what each of the elements of CaSMa are. Apache Cassandra Definition: Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source, distributed, wide column store, NoSQL database management system designed to... Continue reading
First context, then I’ll dive in. Orchestrate http://orchestrate.io/ Orchestrate is a service that provides a simple API to access a multitude of database types all in one location. Key value, graph or events, some of the database types I’ve been using, are but a few they’ve already made available. There are many more on the... 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
Open Source Software (OSS), Why Some Fail At It OSS has won the war. It has been over for years now. Microsoft has ceded, Oracle, VMware and many others have stepped up and attempted to embrace the open source community. Sometimes they’ve been successful, sometimes they haven’t. They’re slowly changing their models to play well... Continue reading
The Iron Foundry Team are big advocates of open source software. We write code across all sorts of languages, just like many of the development shops out there do. Sometimes we’re heavy on the .NET, other times we’re all up in some Java, Ruby on Rails, spooling up a Node.js Application or something else. So... Continue reading
