Re: finding Cassandra servers

2010-03-03 Thread Christopher Brind
So is the current general practice to connect to a known node, e.g. by ip address? If so, what happens if that node is down? Is the entire cluster effectively broken at that point? Or do clients simply maintain a list of nodes a just connect to the first available in the list? Thanks in advance

Re: finding Cassandra servers

2010-03-03 Thread Christopher Brind
Great, thanks Eric On 3 Mar 2010 17:27, "Eric Evans" wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:49 +, Christopher Brind wrote: > So is the current general practice to ... There are so many ways you could tackle this but... If you're talking about provisioning/startup of new nodes

Re: Cassandra Demo/Tutorial Applications

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher Brind
> > > > E) How would one structure the infrastructure for the demo/tutorials ? > What > > assumptions can we make in creating them ? As AMIs to be run in EC2 ? > > I'd probably go with "virtualbox images" as being simpler for people > who don't have an AWS key already. (VB can read vmware player