Growing Your Developer Skills with Valerie Parham-Thompson
Ep. 105 Distributed Data Show
In this industry, showing the drive to expand one's technological skills is crucial. Valerie personifies this drive, and then some. We met with Valerie to discuss all things Cassandra documentation, her love of open source contributions, and some interesting projects she's working on at Pythian.
00:00 Welcome
00:37 How Jake got into the Team Cassandra
01:12 Using Cassandra: a personal or work-based decision?
02:17 Current projects at Pythian
03:47 JMX Tunables
04:57 SSTables: Trials and tribulations
06:50 Any issues with JMX Tunables?
07:23 How much of your workload is consumed with documentation?
08:12 Lessons learned, key takeaways
09:17 Capacity Planning for Cassandra using Facebook Profit
10:08 Wrap up
Speakers
Valerie Parham-Thompson
Cassandra DBA at Pythian
Cristina Veale
at DataStax
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