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 [...]

Those of you studying the vmstat(8) man page may be wondering what the ’st’ figure is in the CPU column. The manual refers to it as “Time stolen from a virtual machine“. More specifically:
It’s the time the hypervisor scheduled something else to run instead of something within your VM. This might be time for another [...]