Today it’s the one month anniversary of Cassandra graduating to a top level Apache project. It now has a new and improved project URL: http://cassandra.apache.org
Recently you may have noticed my writing about Drizzle, but that’s not the only database system I love. I’m also a fan of Cassandra, and I’m proud to work with the [...]

You might think that if you want faster internet performance, you can simply get a connection to the internet that has higher bandwidth. When you get a “faster” internet connection you may observe faster downloads. But it’s less frequently the additional bandwidth, and more frequently reduced latency that actually produces increased interactive web performance. This [...]

I was browsing through twitter mentions of @adrian_otto and found one posted by Ian Thompson mentioning an article about weak randomness in the cloud. It suggests that because there may be insufficient entropy sources on a Cloud Server or instance that it may make it easier to guess random number sequences because different cloud servers [...]