Mustard Grain
One of the primary goals of Apache Cassandra is the storage and retrieval of data as quickly as possible. One of the tools that databases provide is a mechanism called an index, which, like an index at the back of a book, provides quick access to the desired data. Cassandra provides an implementation of secondary […]
The Apache Cassandra database has long included support for multiple datacenters. That is, Cassandra allows an organization to configure a cluster to actively store data across disparate datacenters. There are multiple reasons do this, including: Improve geographic responsiveness Disaster recovery Separation of transactional and analytic workloads In general, when trying to wrap my head around […]
Zipkin is a system for tracing, viewing, and troubleshooting distributed systems and microservice-based applications. Here’s the description from the Zipkin website: Zipkin is a distributed tracing system. It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures. It manages both the collection and lookup of this data. Zipkin’s design is based on the […]