Posts By: chris.k
Chris / September 2, 2015
Continuous Delivery Testing: Part 2 – How To Get Your ROI
We’ve said continuous delivery testing is critical to succeed with continuous delivery, but that they also can become a massive maintenance burden. This brings us to our first practice: Practice #1: Write tests that provide a…
Chris / August 26, 2015
Continuous Delivery Testing: Part 1 – Roadblocks
Nothing will show your customer that you’re on top of your game better than shipping quality software fast. After all, what customer doesn’t want quality work completed on time? Continuous delivery, the practice of keeping the master…
Chris / July 23, 2014
4 Tips on How to Ship Software Fast Like Facebook
4 Tips on How to Ship Software Fast Like Facebook It’s humbling to attend a conference like OSCON. It acts as an immediate reminder of how much you don’t know about software engineering, and offers…
Chris / March 26, 2013
Consistency & Cassandra
Last time, we discussed the high availability and fault tolerance Cassandra (C*) provides automatically and transparently. These are invaluable features and are only possible because C* sacrifices strict consistency. Today, we’ll look at C*’s eventual…
Chris / March 21, 2013
Cassandra Clusters
Until now in our previous blogs we’ve used Cassandra (C*) with only a single node, which is practically never done. So today let’s continue our walk with Cassandra and follow the below screencast to install Cassandra…
Chris / March 19, 2013
Cassandra’s Composites, Counters, and Collections
Today as we take our walk with Cassandra, we will be visiting her three C’s, composites, counters, and collections! Our tweets column family from last post has a single row per user, with composite columns…
Chris / March 14, 2013
Diving Deeper with Cassandra
As we mentioned in our previous post, today we’ll be going behind the scenes with Cassandra and diving deeper into her data modeling. Cassandra Query Language Shell (cqlsh), a recent addition, has made data modeling…