I've been asked by quite a few people, both in person and in JIRA [1] about contributing easy-cass-stress [2] to the project. I've been happy to maintain the project myself over the years but given its widespread use I think it makes sense to make it more widely available and under the project's umbrella.
My goal with the project was always to provide something that's easy to use. Up and running in a couple minutes, using the parameters to shape the workload rather than defining everything through configuration. I was happy to make this tradeoff since Cassandra doesn't have very many types of queries and it's worked well for me over the years. Obviously I would continue working on this project, and I hope this would encourage others to contribute. I've heard a lot of good ideas that other teams have implemented in their folks. I'd love to see those ideas make it into the project, and it sounds like it would be a lot easier for teams to get approval to contribute if it was under the project umbrella. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks, Jon [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18661 [2] https://github.com/rustyrazorblade/easy-cass-stress
