Time Window Compaction Strategy is powerful for time-series data — but only if you follow the rules. Here's what happens when you don't attach a TTL.
Setting up a new datacenter and migrating Rackspace clusters to Google Cloud, zero downtime. Part 1 of 3.
Decommissioning the original Rackspace datacenter after successfully migrating data to Google Cloud. Part 2 of 3.
Things that can go wrong during a zero-downtime Cassandra migration — and how to mitigate and recover. Part 3 of 3.
Using ngrep and Wireshark to catch queries running at the wrong consistency level — proving it to the development team.
Why count(*) on large Cassandra partitions is hurting your cluster, and a smarter pattern using timeuuid and lightweight transactions.
Tracing unexpected cross-DC connections using ngrep on port 9042 — finding which clients are ignoring local consistency.