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  • Sep 18, 2026 Using Opus 5 Without Going Insane
  • Oct 6, 2022 New Minimal Dependency vimrc with ALE
  • Jul 17, 2022 Confirmed Daily Writing is Too Much
  • Jul 16, 2022 Why Free Software Still Matters to Me
  • Jul 15, 2022 Ukrainian Proving Easy And Hard 1st Week
  • Jul 13, 2022 Coding in Lieu of Scripting in Practice
  • Jul 12, 2022 Coding in Lieu of Scripting
  • Jul 11, 2022 Slavic Languages
  • Jul 10, 2022 fallen into rust
  • Jul 9, 2022 Post a day
  • May 26, 2022 Language Learning Strategy 2022
  • Mar 30, 2022 Trying to Get Away From Jekyll
  • Mar 24, 2022 Getting Index Size in DSE Search
  • Oct 12, 2021 Busy Engineers Guide to Deploying on K8s Part 3 - Helm
  • Oct 12, 2021 Busy Engineers Guide to Deploying on K8s Part 2 - Kind
  • Oct 12, 2021 Busy Engineers Guide to Deploying on K8s Part 1 - Setting up Docker with GitHub Packages
  • Jul 28, 2021 Detecting and dealing with backpressure in DSE 6.x
  • Jun 8, 2021 Creating a Spark cluster with Cass Operator
  • Mar 9, 2021 Random Kubernetes Failures and Node Size
  • Mar 5, 2021 The Joy and Pain of Swagger
  • Mar 4, 2021 Why I Don't Cobra
  • Feb 26, 2021 Tuning Indexing Speed in DSE Search 5.x
  • Feb 23, 2021 Quick IP scan without nmap
  • Feb 23, 2021 minimal zsh prompt that is useful
  • Feb 23, 2021 Getting the DataStax cass-operator working on Mac
  • Feb 23, 2021 Configuring UFW with Mosh support
  • Feb 23, 2021 A Tale of Two Vims
  • Feb 8, 2021 Apache NiFi and Cassandra
  • Feb 3, 2021 Heap Size Around 32 GB
  • Jun 14, 2020 coc-vim the perfect compliment to vim
  • May 27, 2020 Picking a web microframework for an existing Scala codebase
  • Feb 5, 2020 Starting Cassandra - Data modeling in the brief
  • Feb 4, 2020 Starting Cassandra - Load testing Cassandra in brief
  • Feb 3, 2020 Starting Cassandra - Setting up a Multi-DC environment
  • Dec 27, 2019 Snakeyaml error handling is tough
  • Dec 20, 2018 MVP how minimal
  • Dec 13, 2018 Surprise Go is ok for me now
  • May 7, 2018 Lessons from a year of Golang
  • Apr 29, 2016 Cassandra - Batch Loading Without the Batch The Nuanced Edition
  • Apr 21, 2016 CASSANDRA LOCAL_QUORUM SHOULD STAY LOCAL
  • Apr 10, 2016 Connection to Oracle From Spark
  • Apr 9, 2016 Reflection Scala-2.10 and Spark weird errors when saving to Cassandra
  • Apr 7, 2016 Logging The Generated CQL from the Spark Cassandra Connector
  • Apr 6, 2016 Don’t use TextField for your unique key in Solr
  • Apr 5, 2016 Spark job that writes to Cassandra just hangs when one node goes down?
  • Mar 15, 2016 Synthetic Sharding with Cassandra. Or How To Deal With Large Partitions.
  • Sep 25, 2015 Cassandra’s “Repair” Should Be Called “Required Maintenance
  • Sep 23, 2015 Scale is a Dish Best Served Eventually Consistent
  • Sep 17, 2015 Retry not Rollback: Idempotent Data Models in Cassandra
  • Sep 17, 2015 Real Time Analytics With Spark Streaming and Cassandra
  • Sep 17, 2015 Lambda+: Cassandra and Spark for Scalable Architecture
  • Sep 17, 2015 Lambda+ or Event Sourcing with TTLs
  • Sep 17, 2015 Event Sourcing and System of Record: Sane Distributed Development In The Modern Era
  • Sep 17, 2015 DataStax a Love Letter
  • Sep 17, 2015 Data Density! Destroyer of Scalability
  • Nov 25, 2014 My Cassandra 2.0 Diagnostics Checklist (Brain Dump)
  • Oct 20, 2014 Domain Modeling Around Deletes or “Using Cassandra as a queue even when you know better
  • Sep 22, 2014 Cassandra Query Patterns: Not using the “in” query for multiple partitions.
  • Sep 22, 2014 Cassandra Auth: Never use the cassandra user in production!
  • Sep 3, 2014 Apache Cassandra: Some useful JMX metrics to monitor
  • Aug 29, 2014 Cassandra C# Driver: Surprising gotcha with SimpleStatement
  • Aug 28, 2014 Cassandra - Batch loading without the Batch keyword
  • Jul 15, 2014 Cassandra & Rails: Cequel Batch Support
  • Apr 20, 2014 Buffer Cache Makes Slow Disks Seem Fast, Till You Need Them.
  • Apr 17, 2014 Data Modeling for Scale with Cassandra
  • Jan 31, 2014 How to become in polyglot in 5 hard steps.
  • Apr 7, 2013 An Evernote backed Journal using Vim/Emacs
  • Feb 4, 2013 Ruth's Story
  • Sep 25, 2011 Rail 3.1 CI setup with Jenkins, Test Unit & SimpleCov on OS X Lion.
  • Feb 4, 2011 The difficult definition of professional software development
  • Sep 19, 2010 Java IoC containers and classpath scanning (or what I’ve been looking for from .NET for months)
  • Jul 16, 2010 Anti-Pattern: Too much of your application is about interacting with external resources
  • Jul 12, 2010 Project Management in Java: A Confused .NET Developer’s Perspective
  • Jul 2, 2010 MySQL 5 Performance Tuning Toolkit
  • Jun 29, 2010 Java Dependency Management with Apache Ivy
  • Jun 26, 2010 Hibernate Connection Pooling: why isn’t the default one for production?
  • Jun 6, 2010 Dynamic DNS with Amazon EC2 Linux and EveryDNS
  • May 23, 2010 Projects in Java with Maven 2
  • Apr 14, 2010 Hudson CI Server: setting up remote slaves AND restrictive security together
  • Apr 13, 2010 Come see my Boo talk at Alamo Coders on the 14th
  • Apr 5, 2010 Domain Specific Languages with Boo: AST Macros
  • Jan 16, 2010 Newbie Win32 Development Using Python
  • Jan 8, 2010 Adventures in Meta programming in Python
  • Nov 20, 2009 Take 3: Python, ISP, IoC, and OCP need a fundamental rethink.
  • Nov 19, 2009 Take 2: Why we use SOLID in static languages and how we get the same functionality for cheap in dynamic languages
  • Nov 16, 2009 I recant my IoC! IoC containers in dynamic languages are silly.
  • Sep 14, 2009 Alt.Net Evangelism And What We Could Do Better
  • Sep 2, 2009 Simple BDD/TDD
  • Sep 2, 2009 Playing With Haskell
  • Aug 31, 2009 Dynamic Loading of .Net Assemblies
  • Aug 30, 2009 Focused and Narrow; Superficial and Broad
  • Aug 14, 2009 Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development
  • Aug 8, 2009 Introducing SpecMaker “Rspec style” BDD in C#
  • Aug 7, 2009 Windsor style convention over configuration in StructureMap
  • Jul 17, 2009 Discussion: Mentoring, Knowledge Transfer and Different Styles Of Learning
  • Jul 12, 2009 Lessons From My First Attempt At Bringing Agile Into A Non-Agile shop.
  • Jul 7, 2009 VAN: Castle Monorail, Active Record and Brail talk at Wednesday 8PM CST (-5 GMT), by yours truly.
  • Jul 4, 2009 Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 7 Refactoring Deployment and Wrap up
  • Jul 3, 2009 Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 6 Basic Authorization With AuthKit
  • Jul 2, 2009 Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 5 Testing Models
  • Jun 29, 2009 Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 4 Introduction For Database Support With SQL Alchemy
  • Jun 25, 2009 VAN: Doing 2 Part Series on Castle development July 1st and 8th at 8pm
  • Jun 25, 2009 Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 3 Views with Mako
  • Jun 24, 2009 Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 2 Controllers, Views and Testing
  • Jun 23, 2009 Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 1 Getting Started
  • Jun 22, 2009 Python Web Framework Series
  • Jun 7, 2009 Engineering or Customer Service which is more important?
  • Jun 3, 2009 Castle ActiveRecord and registering classes at runtime
  • May 28, 2009 IronPython how cool it is
  • May 22, 2009 Context and Spec style testing and my approach to BDD
  • May 21, 2009 Glad to be here

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