Technical Insights

Migration to Hugo

After almost five years of using Pelican as my static site generator, I’ve migrated to the Hugo tool. While I enjoyed Pelican and it’s flexibility, it’s performance started to …

Working with gRPC, Kotlin and Gradle

Edit: The source code for this post is located on GitHub

Sometimes when I travel I end up trying to learn something completely new. For a while I was playing with Rust, Capn Proto, Scala, or …

I Am Still Writing!

If you were to take a look at my blog, you’d think I’d flipped a table and left the tech industry. Not the case at all. I’m still writing, but less frequently, and on the TLP blog. …

Instaclustr Now Supporting Apache Cassandra 3.7 as LTS

Instacluster announced on the Apache Cassandra user list that they are making their supported branch of the Cassandra 3.7 tick tock release publicly available (see GitHub repo). Bug fixes that go …

Rustyrazorblade Radio, A Distributed System Podcast

I haven’t blogged in a while, which is a bummer because I was determined to write an article a week for the entire year. I haven’t even come remotely close to that goal.

I’ve …

Working Relationally With Cassandra

I’ve spent the last 4 years working in the big data world with Cassandra because it’s the only practical solution if you have a requirement to scale out, uptime is a priority, and you need …

Cassandra Dataset Manager Preview 1 Released

One of the problems of learning a new database is getting used to a new way of data modeling. PostgreSQL looks different from Redis, which is different from a graph, and is different from Cassandra. …

Cassandra Dataset Manager Video Preview

I posted a short preview showing off some of the work I’ve been doing recently on Cassandra Dataset Manager, a tool to help new Cassandra users learn how to create proper data models. …

Cassandra 3.3 Released

Apache Cassandra 3.3 was released last week. As per the Tick Tock release schedule, this release is focused on bug fixes and no new features were introduced. For practical purposes, consider this a …