Technical Insights

Cassandra Secondary Index Preview #1

If you’ve looked into using Cassandra at all, you probably have heard plenty of warnings about its secondary indexes. If you’ve come from a relational background, you may have been …

Async Python and Cassandra with Gevent

Introduction

Building a web app relying on database calls with CPython (the standard Python distribution) is pretty easy, but can suffer from performance problems. Python itself isn’t …

Cassandra 3.2 Overview

The 3.0 release of Apache Cassandra marked an important milestone. One of the biggest updates was CASSANDRA-8099, the JIRA to modernize the storage engine. It was also the first release in the new …

FrankDux RPC Preview #1

In my previous post, I briefly mentioned FrankDux, a new project I’m working on. FrankDux is a framework for quickly building RPC microservices in Python. This is a preview of it’s …

KillrAnswers Status Update, and Introducing Frank Dux

In a previous post, I introduced a new project, KillrAnswers. I had originally planned on writing KillrAnswers using Rust, leveraging the Cap’n Proto library for RPC and object serialization. …

UselessDB

I have built a completely useless database.

I had a couple flights across the country this week so I decided to test some ideas in Rust. If you’re not yet familiar with Rust, it’s a …

RAMP Made Easy - Part 2

Introduction

In my previous post I introduced RAMP, a family of algorithms for managing atomicity on reads across distributed database partitions. The first algorithm discussed was RAMP-Fast, which …

RAMP Made Easy

Introduction

In this post I’ll introduce RAMP, a family of algorithms for performing atomic reads across partitions when working with distributed databases. The original paper, Scalable Atomic …

Introducing KillrAnswers

The last few months have been a non stop whirlwind of traveling and speaking. I’ve been very fortunate to have spoken at Strata New York, give a couple sessions at the Cassandra Summit, and …