(Updated: 2nd November for Cassandra 0.4.1) I couldn’t find much in the way of an OS X install guide for Cassandra and (particularly) Thrift, so here’s a brief summary of the steps I took to get Cassandra up and running on Snow Leopard. Requirements:...

Today Sydney is enveloped in a quite spectacular dust storm. Everything is an eerie orange, it really feels post-apocalyptic or like the scene from a martian wasteland. Here’s a photo that Debi took through our apartment window at about 6am this...

Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store. (apache.org) Originally developed by facebook, it is now an Apache project and at present has incubator status. From my point of view, Cassandra stands...