Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-10-01 Thread Edward Capriolo
Hello all, Work has begun on the second edition! Keep hitting me up with ideas. In particular I am looking for someone who has done work with flume+Cassandra and pig+Cassandra. Both of these things topics will be covered to some extent in the second edition, but these are two instances in which

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-07-01 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Aaron Turner synfina...@gmail.com wrote:  Honestly, I think using the same terms as a RDBMS does makes users think they're exactly the same thing and have the same properties... which is close enough in some cases, but dangerous in others. The point is that

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Raj N
Great stuff!!! On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all, It has not been very long since the first book was published but several things have been added to Cassandra and a few things have changed. I am putting together a list of changed content,

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Robin Verlangen
Hi Edward, Looking forward to your book. It's always interesting to read what others have to say about a certain subject, and hopefully even learn new things! 2012/6/27 Raj N raj.cassan...@gmail.com Great stuff!!! On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Aaron Turner
Hey Edward, I finally posted my (short) blog post on using Hector with Jruby: http://synfin.net/sock_stream/technology/code/cassandra-hector-jruby-awesome If you're interested in documenting that more in detail in your book, let me know and I can help you with that in your book if you'd like.

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Courtney Robinson
Sounds good. One thing I'd like to see is more coverage on Cassandra Internals. Out of the box Cassandra's great but having a little inside knowledge can be very useful because it helps you design your applications to work with Cassandra; rather than having to later make endless optimizations that

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Edward Capriolo
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Courtney Robinson court...@crlog.info wrote: Sounds good. One thing I'd like to see is more coverage on Cassandra Internals. Out of the box Cassandra's great but having a little inside knowledge can be very useful because it helps you design your applications

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Brian O'Neill
RE: API method signatures changing That triggers another thought... What terminology will you use in the book to describe the data model? CQL? When we wrote the RefCard on DZonehttp://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/apache-cassandra, we intentionally favored/used CQL terminology. On advisement

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Edward Capriolo
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Brian O'Neill b...@alumni.brown.edu wrote: RE: API method signatures changing That triggers another thought... What terminology will you use in the book to describe the data model?  CQL? When we wrote the RefCard on DZone, we intentionally favored/used CQL

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Bill
I'm looking forward to getting a few copies of this. Some areas that would be great to cover - Indexing strategies - Configuring clients/env for sane timestamping - Efficient CQL - Top 8/10 perf issues/stacktraces and common resolutions - understanding nodetool

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Rustam Aliyev
Hi Edward, That's a great news! One thing I'd like to see in the new edition is Counters, known issues and how to avoid them: - avoid double counting (don't retry on failure, use write consistency level ONE, use dedicated Hector connector?) - delete counters (tricky, reset to zero?) -

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Franc Carter
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Brian O'Neill b...@alumni.brown.edu wrote: RE: API method signatures changing That triggers another thought... What terminology will you use in the book to describe the data

Re: Ball is rolling on High Performance Cassandra Cookbook second edition

2012-06-27 Thread Aaron Turner
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Brian O'Neill b...@alumni.brown.edu wrote: RE: API method signatures changing That triggers another thought... What terminology will you use in the book to describe the data model?  CQL? When we wrote the RefCard on DZone, we intentionally favored/used CQL