Yesterday we finally went full GA (Generally Available) with DataStax Astra. For the quick TLDR think of it as Apache Cassandra that you can spin up as a service and use in about a minute. I, as I wrote about some months ago, joined the engineering team to help build out the system! I quickly... Continue reading →

Here’s a talk Cedrick Lunven (who I have the fortune of working with!) about creating API’s for your database, your distributed database. He starts out with a few objectives for the talk: Provide you a working API implementing Rest, gRPC, and GraphQL. Give implementation details through Demo. Reveal hints to choose and WHY, (specifically to... Continue reading →

Ah, part 2! If you’re looking for part 1, click this link. Review: In the last blog entry I went through more than a few examples of using cURL to issue GET requests against various end points using Node.js & Restify. I also covered the basics on where to go to find cURL in case... Continue reading →

So often I end up putting together some RESTful services (or the intent is to at least build them with that premise, but we all know how that ends up). The API URIs routing gets put together and one wants to take a crack at the service as soon as possible. Here’s a quick guide... Continue reading →