May 2010
1 post
Slackline & Acrobatics Workshop in Omaha
A friend of mine is coming to Omaha on Saturday, May 29th to put on a slackline workshop, as well as a acrobatics workshop. Each workshop is 1.5 - 2hrs long, and has a suggested donation of $20.
This should be alot of fun, and no prior experience is necessary. If interested, contact me at nick@nickashley.org
Here is some information about the event:
Workshop Descriptions:
Fundamentals of ...
April 2010
3 posts
What the hell is Gizzard?
So I’ve seen a few articles talking about how twitter released a new open source ‘Sharding Framework’ called Gizzard. It sounds interesting, but I really have no idea what a sharding framework is, and how that works.
Gizzard is not a storage engine, it is middleware that you use on top of whatever storage engine you want. I dont really understand how that can work, or make...
Cassandra Facts
Just finished reading a good blog post by Jonathan Ellis where he discusses some common myths that are floating around about Cassandra. The most interesting to me is his last point, where he explains that even though most of Cassandra’s data remains in memory, it writes to a commit log sot hat your data won’t be lost in the event of a catastrophic failure. Apparently the write-log...
Welcome to my new home at tumblr
So I was hosting my blog with a company called storytelr. Basically I never wrote any content there, it was just another site to view my feed from sharing google reader items, as well as my twitter posts and pictures uploaded to picasa.
Well they stopped hosting peoples content, and I didn’t really feel like setting up an account on our server and installing it locally, as it really...