Tag: Open Source

When I started learning Cassandra, I noticed some concepts were not well explained, and it might be helpful for beginners to have information on a single topic in one place. This is how the idea of this blog was born….

Percona Live is always a great opportunity to learn from the best and brightest in the open-source database community. This time, Percona Live Europe is being held at the Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, The Netherlands from September 30 to October…

Percona Live provides the open source database community with an opportunity to discover and discuss the latest open source trends, technologies, and innovations. The conference includes the best and brightest innovators and influencers in the open source database industry. This…

A client recently asked us to migrate a Cassandra cluster running in Docker containers to Elassandra, with the data directory persisted via a bind mount. Elassandra is a fork of Cassandra integrated closely with Elasticsearch, to allow for a highly scalable…

Percona Live 2018 is coming up soon, and Pythian is excited to be participating again this year. The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference is the premier open source database event for individuals and businesses that develop and use open…

It’s that time of the year again— FOSDEM is coming up next weekend in Brussels February 3-4, 2018. FOSDEM stands for Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting. It’s an annual event that has gained popularity over the last few years…

Elliot Zissman, Managing Director at Pythian, provides practical tips to ensure your organization’s applications are enterprise-ready.

David Salmela explains what is so great about the Python data model being so simple. Learn how Python will allow you to hit the ground running with its ease-of-use framework.

The fsfreeze command, is used to suspend and resume access to a file system. This allows consistent snapshots to be taken of the filesystem. fsfreeze supports Ext3/4, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS. A filesystem can be frozen using following command: #…

strace is a very useful tool which traces system calls and signals for a running process. This helps a lot while debugging application level performance issues and bugs. Aim of this post is to demonstrate the power of strace in…