Technical Insights

Say Hello to Meatbot

What is Meatbot?

Meatbot is a HipChat bot for managing status updates for our growing team of Evangelists at DataStax. It’s built in Python 2.7, utilizing the Will library. The status updates …

Python for Programmers

When I started learning Python, there’s a few things I wish I had known about. It took a while to learn them all. This is my attempt to compile the highlights into a single post. This post is …

The Myth of Schema-less

I have grown increasingly frustrated with the world as people have become more and more convinced that “schema-less” is actually a feature to be proud of (or even exists). For over ten …

CQLEngine Intro Posted on Youtube

CQLEngine now using the Python Native Driver

I’m happy to announce that cqlengine is now using the Python Native Driver. For the most part, this should be a trivial upgrade. See the notes below on upgrading.

The Good News

• Significantly …

No Downtime Database Migrations

Introduction

Back at my last job, we successfully migrated from MongoDB to Cassandra without any downtime. We did two webinars with Datastax at the time (I am now a Datastax employee). Our first …

An Introduction to Roadhouse

Introduction

In this post I will provide an introduction to Roadhouse, a python library for managing security group settings across multiple VPCs in AWS. At the conclusion, you will have an …

Git Alias For Simplifying Github Pull Requests

As cqlengine has picked up in popularity, so has my need to review pull requests. Here’s the git alias that I’m using:

[alias]
    pr = "!f() { git checkout -b pr_$1; curl …

CORS with Wildcard Subdomains Using Nginx

This was originally posted on the SHIFT developers blog.

First off - what is CORS? CORS is a means of allowing cross site requests. You can read up in lengthy detail on it’s features here. …