Joshua McKenzie

Coder, Reader, Thinker, Talker.
Apache Cassandra pmc, committer
Opinions are my own

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

A lot of incredibly hard work from many talented and diverse engineers went into this release. Really proud to see us moving this rapidly with this bar of quality! 👏

Come hang out in the "cassandra-dev" slack channel on https://t.co/0ZmzA5ioA7

Onward to 5.0!

[Apache Cassandra @cassandra]

#ApacheCassandra 4.1 is GA! 🎉

The annual release delivers:
⦾ An easier to use experience.
⦾ Technical excellence Cassandra users require.
⦾ Stability of 4.0 enhanced to accelerate your cloud-native future.

Read the blog to find out more:
https://t.co/RkGODBavrO

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

CI on distributed systems is really the gift that keeps on giving. ;) #ApacheCassandra 4.1 ftw

https://t.co/bqriZjLM5x

[Apache Cassandra @cassandra]

Interested in new #ApacheCassandra release process?
Read "Behind the scenes of an Apache Cassandra Release" by @_jamckenzie 😃
#Database #devops
https://t.co/YLeqUrCmRT

[henrik ingo ❤️🇺🇦 ❤️ @h_ingo]

Things are starting to get interesting!

Branimir opens up the discussion to move #apachecassandra memtables to use Trie index structures.
https://t.co/9HsLmxoNBs

[Apollo @apollographql]

We’re thrilled to launch Odyssey 🚀, Apollo’s official learning platform! With videos, code challenges, and quizzes, our Education team has been working hard to help you master GraphQL faster!

Begin your Odyssey today: https://t.co/tEwepLeld3

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

@shirleman @mfateev @jepsen_io @ScyllaDB @PatrickMcFadin Fork of "jepsen as a service" run internally and open-sourced here: https://t.co/sdkkYiX0RI

That mailing list thread is a great reference to get details. TL;DR: there's edge cases in the old impl that are fixed in an optional 4.0 impl, and more work to come on LWT post 4.0.

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

@askulkarni Did this same thing myself a couple weeks ago. Surprisingly a low-pain experience.

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

Good to see us closing in on 4.0 GA!

[Apache Cassandra @cassandra]

The next #Cassandra Changelog blog is here! Our monthly roundup of community activities including:

- 4.0 beta updates (we’re closing in...)

- Reaper 2.1

- @ApacheSpark & Cassandra SSTables

- User stories @Netflix @Yelp

- Tutorials & more

https://t.co/b5ejDjpMEI

[Apache Cassandra @cassandra]

Introducing the first Cassandra Changelog blog! Our monthly roundup of community activities including:

- 4.0 beta updates

- New fuzz testing tool

- User stories @BigmateTech @TechAtBloomberg

- Tutorials & more
https://t.co/qCBW4uQePy

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

@auxyco proves that there's a musician in me. They're just l̵a̵z̵y̵ efficient. Must be related to the programmer in me.

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

@normanmaurer +1 to the "Effective <N>" books. Having something focus on the idioms of an ecosystem and the codification of value systems in the programming language has definitely worked for me in the past.

And now I have a new book to buy apparently. :)

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

Great work by everyone getting the project to this point! Incredible journey to see #cassandra hit this milestone. Everyone kick the tires and let us know what you find.

[Apache Cassandra @cassandra]

Introducing Apache Cassandra 4.0 Beta: Battle Tested From Day One

https://t.co/6v7LGfNNwq

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

@ArielWeisberg #whynotboth

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

Was a great discussion with some exceptional practitioners! Honored to be included.

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

Really excited to see this launch. Thrilled to see the open-source contributions and projects coming out of the work!

[Sam Ramji 🇺🇦 @sramji]

We launched Astra today, a database-as-a-service for Apache Cassandra. It includes five open source projects to support Cassandra on Kubernetes, which I wrote up here: https://t.co/6XlUkD4T0j #cassandra #kubernetes #k8ssandra

[Jake Luciani @tjake]

Announcing the OSS release of our distributed testing service Fallout. It's an extendable and composable declarative testing and chaos tool.

https://t.co/COo4xNAI5F

First release with k8s support for C* and nosqlbench but can extend to testing any distributed system or tool.

[Sam Ramji 🇺🇦 @sramji]

We open-sourced our Management API Sidecar for Apache Cassandra today. The intent is to make C* work better with Kubernetes. Supports 3.11 and 4.0 alpha3. #k8ssandra https://t.co/cv95P7990C @tjake @joshmck

[Roadie For Tesla @tryroadie]

The Roadie is live!

Our first blog post explains how the roadie came to be. https://t.co/O1Gx3RggUr #tesla #sentrymode #dashcam

[Jake Luciani @tjake]

Just went live with my project. It’s a device and app for Tesla that makes it dead simple to access your dash cam and sentry mode videos from your phone wirelessly. Also I think I just outed myself as a Tesla fanboy. #tesla

[Joshua McKenzie @_jamckenzie]

Never expected to be so entertained by a book about meetings. https://t.co/Z5QWvcXPEu