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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]