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