I'm building a webservice whereby I read the data from cassandra, then write it over the wire.
It's going to push LOTS of content, and encoding/decoding performance has really bitten us in the future. So I try to avoid transparent encoding/decoding if I can avoid it. So right now, I have a huge blob of text that's a 'text' column. Logically it *should* be text, because that's what it is... Can I just keep it as text so our normal tools work on it, but get it as raw UTF8 if I call getBytes? This way I can call getBytes and then send it right over the wire as pre-encoded UTF8 data. ... and of course the question is whether it will continue working in the future :-P I'll write a test of it of course but I wanted to see what you guys thought of this idea. -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* Skype: *burtonator* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> <http://spinn3r.com> War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Corporations are people.
