Technical Insights

Unveiling Performance Bottlenecks With Flamegraphs using async-profiler

Welcome to the first article of ‘The Month of Profiling,’ a series I will be presenting throughout November. We’ll explore a range of technologies that are crucial for identifying …

Uncover Cassandra's Throughput Boundaries with the New Adaptive Scheduler in tlp-stress

Introduction

Apache Cassandra remains the preferred choice for organizations seeking a massively scalable NoSQL database. To guarantee predictable performance, Cassandra administrators and developers …

AxonOps Review - An Operations Platform for Apache Cassandra

Note: Before we dive into this review of AxonOps and their offerings, it’s important to note that this blog post is part of a paid engagement in which I provided product feedback. AxonOps had no …

Benchmarking Apache Cassandra with tlp-stress

This post will introduce you to tlp-stress, a tool for benchmarking Apache Cassandra. I started tlp-stress back when I was working at The Last Pickle. At the time, I was spending a lot of time …

Back to Consulting!

Saying “it’s been a while since I wrote anything here” would be an understatement, but I’m back, with a lot to talk about in the upcoming months.

First off - if you’re …

A Small Utility to Help With Extracting Code Snippets

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here. Part of the reason has been due to the writing I’ve done over on the blog at The Last Pickle. In the lsat few years, I’ve …

Enabling Kotlin 1.3's Support for Returning Result in Standard Library

Kotlin 1.3 was released recently. There’s a number of interesting changes. Coroutines have graduated from experimental, contracts, and inline classes have been useful in my own work so far. …

LVM by Example

In this post I’ll be discussing the fundamentals of the Logical Volume Manager in Linux, usually simply referred to as LVM. I’ve used LVM occasionally over the years, but for the most …

Accessing Private Variables in the JVM

In this I’ll discuss a uncommonly used but useful technique of accessing variables and methods which have been declared as private in the JVM, using the Apache Commons Lang library to work …