Technical Insights

easy-cass-lab now available in Homebrew

I’m happy to share some exciting news for all Cassandra enthusiasts! My open source project, easy-cass-lab, is now installable via a homebrew tap. This powerful tool is designed to make testing …

Cassandra Training Signups For July and August Are Open!

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve opened training signups for Operator Excellence to the public for July and August. If you’re interested in stepping up your game as a Cassandra …

Streaming My Sessions With Cassandra 5.0

As a long time participant with the Cassandra project, I’ve witnessed firsthand the evolution of this incredible database. From its early days to the present, our journey has been marked by …

Streaming Cassandra Workloads and Experiments

Streaming

In the world of software engineering, especially within the realm of distributed systems, continuous learning and experimentation are not just beneficial; they’re essential. As a …

Live Streaming On Tuesdays

As I promised in December, I redid my presentation from the Cassandra Summit 2023 on a live stream. You can check it out at the bottom of this post.

Going forward, I’ll be live-streaming on …

Cassandra Summit Recap: Performance Tuning and Cassandra Training

Hello, friends in the Apache Cassandra community!

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the Cassandra Summit in San Jose. Unfortunately, we ran into an issue with my screen refusing to cooperate …

Cassandra Summit, YouTube, and a Mailing List

I am thrilled to share some significant updates and exciting plans with my readers and the Cassandra community. As we draw closer to the end of the year, I’m preparing for an important speaking …

Profiling (almost) everything you can think of with bpftrace

Welcome back to the month of profiling! The first two weeks we took a look at using the async-profiler to generate flame graphs and bcc-tools to understand your hardware. This week we’ll be …

Hardware profiling with bcc-tools

Welcome back to my series on performance profiling! In this second installment, we’re shifting our focus towards a hands-on exploration of our hardware using the power of bcc-tools. Building on …