Cross posted also here: http://techblog.outbrain.com/2011/08/visualizing-our-deployment-pipeline/ When large numbers start piling up, in order to make sense of them they need to be visualized. I still work as a consultant at outbrain about one day a week and most of the time I’m in charge of the deployment system last described here. The challenges encountered when developing the system are good challenges, [...]
The title sounds bombastic but hopefully the content is going to be trivial… For anyone who’s been doing software provisioning in a non trivial environment this post should only be calling names to things he may already know. Yesterday I was chatting with Nati Shalom and we were analyzing the difficulties of maintaining software for [...]
Update: Cross posted here and at recipitor’s blog This post is a how-to for launching a simple Minimum Viable Product (or even less) web page for a new product I’m working on. If you want to read the story go ahead, otherwise skip right to The Point. The Story When I started working on my [...]
Warning: very long but interesting write-up It gives me great pleasure that the last project I’ve been working on at outbrain is one with the potential to speed up product development and is at the frontline of many web companies: Continuous Deployment. These are my last days at outbrain (I’ll share more about where I’m [...]
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Lately I’ve been adding some random small features to cassandra so I took the time to have a closer look at the internal design of the system. While with some features added, such as an embedded service, I could have certainly get away without good understanding of the codebase and design, others, such as the [...]
Hector is a Java client for Cassandra I’ve implemented and have written about before (here and here). What I haven’t written about is its extensive JMX support, which makes it really unique, among other properties such as failover and really simple load balancing. JMX support in hector isn’t really new, but it’s the first time [...]
I’ve added a very simple load balancing feature, as well as improved failover behavior to Hector. Hector is a Java Cassandra client, to read more about it please see my previous post Hector – a Java Cassandra client. In version 0.5.0-6 I added poor-man’s load balancing as well as improved failover behavior. The interface CassandraClientPool used to [...]
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While developing an application at outbrain, using Cassandra I was looking for a good way to test my app. The application consists of a Cassandra Client package, some Data Access Objects (DAOs) and some bean object that represent the data entities in cassandra. I wanted to test them all. As unit test tradition goes, my [...]