Re: Welcome Aaron Ploetz as Cassandra Committer

2025-03-04 Thread Rahul Singh (ANANT)
Wooot woot Congrats Aaron Sent via Superhuman On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 12:24 PM, Francisco Guerrero wrote: > Congratulations Aaron! > > On 2025/03/04 00:23:49 Patrick McFadin wrote: > > The Apache Cassandra PMC is very happy to announce that Aaron Plo

Re: Welcome Ekaterina Dimitrova as Cassandra PMC member

2025-03-04 Thread Rahul Singh (ANANT)
Congrats Ekaterina! Sent via Superhuman iOS On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM, Aaron wrote: > Welcome Ekaterina! Congratulations!!! > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM Yifan Cai wrote: > >> Congratulations! >> -- >> *From:*

Re: [DISCUSS] 5.1 should be 6.0

2024-12-11 Thread Rahul Singh (ANANT)
+1 for calling it 6, even if just to bring up to people on 2.x,3.x that they are on "ancient" code. Sent via Superhuman iOS On Wed, Dec 11 2024 at 5:23 AM, Aleksey Yeshchenko wrote: > We don’t really practice canonic sermver, we never really have, a

Re: Planet Cassandra meetup organizer opportunity

2024-12-06 Thread Rahul Singh (ANANT)
Melissa, Bernardo, am happy to help and volunteer some of our resources as well. We've done many Cassandra Lunches over the years and would love to support and continue the Planet Cassandra meetups. Sent via Superhuman On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 2:56 PM,

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating the C* website design

2020-08-21 Thread Rahul Singh
visitors, we’ll find out soon enough. rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com http://cassandra.link The Apache Cassandra Knowledge Base. On Aug 21, 2020, 8:54 PM -0400, Rahul Singh , wrote: > Folks, > > I applaud the choice of Antora for documentation but I’m not sure it is the > bes

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating the C* website design

2020-08-21 Thread Rahul Singh
Folks, I applaud the choice of Antora for documentation but I’m not sure it is the best choice for generating an appealing site. Antora’s self professed strength is in technical documentation. Do we want to stick to a “documentation” / utility look for the front facing site or for a blog? htt

Re: [Discuss] num_tokens default in Cassandra 4.0

2020-02-17 Thread Rahul Singh
+1 on 8 rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com http://cassandra.link The Apache Cassandra Knowledge Base. On Feb 17, 2020, 5:20 PM -0500, Erick Ramirez , wrote: > +1 on 8 tokens. I'd personally like us to be able to move this along pretty > quickly as it's confusing for users looking for direction. Cheers

Re: Ideas for Cassandra 2020 - Remote Meetups / Mastermind

2020-02-10 Thread Rahul Singh
coincide, as an idea, or just get the word out to others > that might be interested in listening in? > > (Next one has not been scheduled yet, but will show up here on dev@ list.) > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Apache+Cassandra+Contributor+Meeting >

Re: Do we need Javadoc in binary distribution? Was: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 4.0-alpha3 released

2020-02-09 Thread Rahul Singh
Non binding +1 For not deploying java docs on every node. Rahul Singh | Business Platform Architect 1.202.390.9200 | rahul.si...@anant.us Anant 3 Washington Circle NW, #301 Washington , D.C. 20037 https://anant.us On Feb 9, 2020, 5:26 AM -0500, Alex Ott , wrote: > https://issues.apache.org/j

Re: Do we need Javadoc in binary distribution? Was: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 4.0-alpha3 released

2020-02-09 Thread Rahul Singh
+1 Nonbinding Rahul Singh | Business Platform Architect 1.202.390.9200 | rahul.si...@anant.us Anant 3 Washington Circle NW, #301 Washington , D.C. 20037 https://anant.us On Feb 9, 2020, 5:26 AM -0500, Alex Ott , wrote: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15561 > > Micha

Ideas for Cassandra 2020 - Remote Meetups / Mastermind

2020-02-08 Thread Rahul Singh
Folks, (Initially meant for User , but realized after I wrote it , it’s more sausage making talk which en users probably don’t care about) I took on a bunch of work and finally starting to get my head out of the sand and realized I failed to deliver on some promises last year I made to myself a

Re: Fwd: [CI] What are the troubles projects face with CI and Infra

2020-02-08 Thread Rahul Singh
Related to instances, can we get those credits put to use that Amazon promised to give back to the community as part of their Amazon Managed Cassandra Service announcement? Alternatively if there is an appetite to set something in patreon or GitHub’s donation platform , it may be a good way to

Re: Ideas for removing unnecessary friction in contributing to docs/website.

2019-07-30 Thread Rahul Singh
Acknowledged Mick. I'll review that ticket. rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com http://cassandra.link On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 5:09 AM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > > > The website should be the easiest thing for people to work on. Most of > the > > documentation should be easy as well. Not all documenta

Ideas for removing unnecessary friction in contributing to docs/website.

2019-07-29 Thread Rahul Singh
Folks, I'm working on a proposal for a better audience / goal oriented documentation that takes into account the goals of the different audiences of consumers as well as contributors to the documentation. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=122916415 At the bottom of

Re: Google Season of Docs 2019 for Apache Cassandra

2019-07-23 Thread Rahul Singh
e April 23rd. > > Thanks, > > Dinesh > > > On Apr 5, 2019, at 6:01 AM, Rahul Singh > wrote: > > > > I saw the email from Sharan. Who's lead on getting the application in for > > the SOD? Thanks, > > > > rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com

Re: [DISCUSS] Moving chats to ASF's Slack instance

2019-07-18 Thread Rahul Singh
+1 rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com http://cassandra.link On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 5:55 PM Jon Haddad wrote: > +1 > > On Tue, May 28, 2019, 2:54 PM Joshua McKenzie > wrote: > > > +1 to switching over. One less comms client + history + searchability is > > enough to get my vote easy. > > > > On

Re: Google Season of Docs 2019 for Apache Cassandra

2019-04-05 Thread Rahul Singh
gt;>>> If you do not have a confluence account, please create one. I think > the > >>>> PMCs have the ability to give you write permissions. > >>>> > >>>> Please feel free to add and modify the page. I think the most > important > >>>&

Re: API calls taking time

2019-03-14 Thread Rahul Singh
I don't think this is a dev group related question. This seems to be fore the user group. -- rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com http://cassandra.link On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 7:10 PM Sundaramoorthy, Natarajan < natarajan_sundaramoor...@optum.com> wrote: > Few api calls interacting with 3 node Cassandr

Re: Google Season of Docs 2019 for Apache Cassandra

2019-03-12 Thread Rahul Singh
Cool. I’m willing to help by taking sub sections of the overall effort. The docs need a lot of TLC. Thanks , Rahul Singh Principal Architect | 1.202.390.9200 | rahul.si...@datastax.com On Mar 12, 2019, 8:58 PM -0400, Ben Slater , wrote: > Hi Dinesh > > Great idea. We should be able to

Re: Audit logging to tables.

2019-02-27 Thread Rahul Singh
I understand why you’d want it but it would add more data management to the database. Generally for logging you could consider putting into ELK and then it can be more queried on arbitrarily. On Feb 27, 2019, 12:42 PM -0500, Dinesh Joshi , wrote: > I don’t believe there is a plan to do it. If it

Re: How to identify inserts/deletes/updates from CDC data

2019-02-21 Thread Rahul Singh
Your questions seem more appropriate  for the user list because you are trying to solve for use cases. On Feb 11, 2019, 6:48 AM -0500, Sreenivasulu Nallapati , wrote: > Hi, > I am parsing the commit log files and I could not able to segregate the > inserts/deletes/updates from the mutations. Is t

Re: Capturing all events from a given timestamp

2019-02-21 Thread Rahul Singh
If you streamed CDC into Cassandra via something like Kafka Connect, then yes. On Feb 10, 2019, 7:00 PM -0500, Sreenivasulu Nallapati , wrote: > Hi, > > I have a requirement to be capture any changes to tables, inserts deletes > or updates from a given timestamp. > However, with CDC enabled, I wan

Re: SEDA, queues, and a second lower-priority queue set

2019-01-16 Thread Rahul Singh
! Rahul Singh Principal Architect | 1.202.390.9200 | rahul.si...@datastax.com On Jan 16, 2019, 3:09 PM -0600, Carl Mueller , wrote: > additionally, a certain number of the threads in each stage could be > restricted from serving the low-priority queues at all, say 8/32 or 16/32 > threads, t

Re: [DISCUSS] releasing next 3.0 & 3.11

2019-01-16 Thread Rahul Singh
I’m all for it. Apart from general testing with an existing app, do we have automation to bring up / run stress / tear down the cluster? I have a few endurance tests I can run written on Gatling. Rahul Singh Chief Executive Officer m 202.905.2818 Anant Corporation 1010 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite

Re: Built in trigger: double-write for app migration

2018-10-18 Thread Rahul Singh
it part of the cluster? Do you have more than a hundred tables? Rahul Singh Chief Executive Officer m 202.905.2818 Anant Corporation 1010 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 250 Washington, D.C. 20007 We build and manage digital business technology platforms. On Oct 18, 2018, 4:35 PM -0400, Ben Slater

Re: Implicit Casts for Arithmetic Operators

2018-10-02 Thread Rahul Singh
+1 on Postgres approach. In the last 5 years I’ve seen people move from Oracle and SQL server to some variant of Cassandra or Postgres and other new tech is also more likely to support Postgres (Cockroach..) I don’t care either way. It really depends on what you are storing. Rahul Singh Chief

Re: Proposing an Apache Cassandra Management process

2018-09-30 Thread Rahul Singh
: as Apache does at a higher level. Rahul Singh Chief Executive Officer m 202.905.2818 Anant Corporation 1010 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 250 Washington, D.C. 20007 We build and manage digital business technology platforms. On Sep 29, 2018, 5:29 PM -0400, sankalp kohli , wrote: > Thanks Dinesh

Re: Proposing an Apache Cassandra Management process

2018-09-29 Thread Rahul Singh
Mick, I think there is someone who’s maintaining CTOP now.. I added it to my admin/monitoring list on https://github.com/Anant/awesome-cassandra Rahul On Sep 29, 2018, 3:20 PM -0400, Dinesh Joshi , wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2018, at 7:35 PM, Mick Semb Wever wrote: > > > > Reaper, > > I have looked

Re: Proposing an Apache Cassandra Management process

2018-09-29 Thread Rahul Singh
All of Apache is a patchwork of tools. All of Open Source is a patchwork of tools. All of Linux is a patchwork of tools. What works, works. If it wasn’t a patchwork, open source wouldn’t be what it is. Period. OSS Cassandra can use all the help it can get — in terms of documentation, and tooli

Re: [VOTE] Development Approach for Apache Cassandra Management process

2018-09-12 Thread Rahul Singh
A. +1. Bias for action. Use something that works. Iterate. Rahul Singh Chief Executive Officer m 202.905.2818 Anant Corporation 1010 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 250 Washington, D.C. 20007 We build and manage digital business technology platforms. On Sep 12, 2018, 8:23 PM -0400, Jeff Beck , wrote

Re: Reaper as cassandra-admin

2018-08-27 Thread Rahul Singh
how much time I spend on it I probably wouldn’t want make a better one. Rahul Singh Chief Executive Officer m 202.905.2818 Anant Corporation 1010 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 250 Washington, D.C. 20007 We build and manage digital business technology platforms. On Aug 27, 2018, 9:22 PM -0400, Mick

Re: Side Car New Repo vs not

2018-08-21 Thread Rahul Singh
+1 for separate repo. Especially on git. Maybe make it a submodule. Rahul On Aug 21, 2018, 3:33 PM -0500, Stefan Podkowinski , wrote: > I'm also currently -1 on the in-tree option. > > Additionally to what Aleksey mentioned, I also don't see how we could > make this work with the current build and

Re: Proposing an Apache Cassandra Management process

2018-08-17 Thread Rahul Singh
I understand the issues of managing different versions of two correlated components — but it is possible to create unit tests with core components of both. It takes more effort but it is possible. That being said, in my experience using Reaper and in the DataStax distribution , using OpsCenter

Re: Recommendation: running Cassandra in containers

2018-06-28 Thread Rahul Singh
Docker containers work - and so they will work with kubernetes PersistentVolumes. Nothing would beat bare metal , CPU, and Ram in terms of speed but containerization / kubernetization makes sense if you want to totally automate infrastructure as code across clouds. Rahul On Jun 27, 2018, 6:23 P

Re: Evolving the client protocol

2018-04-19 Thread Rahul Singh
Sounds interesting. Could 80% of what we gain with a “shard” approach be achieved via Mesos to wrap a stateful service? Technically it’s “Sharding” the whole machine and better utilizing resources. -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Apr 19, 2018, 1:23 PM -0500, sankalp

Re: Roadmap for 4.0

2018-04-12 Thread Rahul Singh
I can commit some resources on my team - especially as we onboard some of our summer apprentices. I have some proprietary stress tools geared for Cassandra read / writes that are a little better and creates a little more realistic data than Cassandra stress. -- Rahul Singh rahul.si

Re: Repair scheduling tools

2018-04-12 Thread Rahul Singh
Schedule scheme looks good. I believe in process / sidecar can both coexist. As an admin would love to be able to run one or the other or none. Thank you for taking a lead and producing a plan that can actually be executed. -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Apr 12, 2018

Re: Repair scheduling tools

2018-04-05 Thread Rahul Singh
> > scrape process > > > > > > > > I don't see a reason for us to ever go back to built-in repairs if they > > > > don't improve immensely. In many cases (especially with MVs) they are > > > true > > > > resource killers. &g

Re: Repair scheduling tools

2018-04-04 Thread Rahul Singh
possibilities of including a GUI hosted in the same process without cluttering the core coolness of Cassandra. Best, -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Apr 4, 2018, 2:50 AM -0400, Dor Laor , wrote: > We at Scylla, implemented repair in a similar way to the Cassandra rea

Re: Repair scheduling tools

2018-04-03 Thread Rahul Singh
Agree on including in the distribution but I think repair can live independently and be run / configured separately. -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Apr 3, 2018, 4:37 PM -0400, Nate McCall , wrote: > This document does a really good job of listing out some of

Re: Paying off tech debt and correctly naming things

2018-03-21 Thread Rahul Singh
+1 - can help with sections of the code -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Mar 21, 2018, 4:25 PM -0500, Lerh Chuan Low , wrote: > For reasons others have mentioned (nightmare to continuously update branch > and resolve merge conflicts, existing patches/big features

RE: A JIRA proposing a seperate repository for the online documentation

2018-03-17 Thread Rahul Singh
technology with a new name. Thats how we used to generate sites back in 1990s.. :) -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Mar 17, 2018, 10:03 AM -0400, Kenneth Brotman , wrote: > How about if we look at the website a little differently. Isn't it an > opportunity to showcas

RE: A JIRA proposing a seperate repository for the online documentation

2018-03-17 Thread Rahul Singh
. Prove it. -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Mar 16, 2018, 6:54 PM -0400, Kenneth Brotman , wrote: > There is no need for another program. Keep the code in html, css and js. > People can modify that and show proposed changes in that. No need to convert > back and f

Re: A JIRA proposing a seperate repository for the online documentation

2018-03-15 Thread Rahul Singh
) have some semblance of a search maybe using something like Algolia or whatever. -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Mar 14, 2018, 7:58 PM -0400, Murukesh Mohanan , wrote: > I think this was how it was in the dark ages, with the wiki and all. I > believe the reason wh

Re: Filling in the blank To Do sections on the Apache Cassandra web site

2018-02-23 Thread Rahul Singh
Ken I can help out with text or with drafting new stuff. I’ll review the list you provided and get back to you. -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Feb 23, 2018, 7:28 PM -0500, Kenneth Brotman , wrote: > These nine web pages on the Apache Cassandra web site have blank

Re: Why isn't there a separate JVM per table?

2018-02-23 Thread Rahul Singh
only way to get beyond is distributed asynchronous systems that are self healing. -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Feb 23, 2018, 4:34 AM -0500, Brian Hess , wrote: > Something folks haven't raised, but would be another impediment here is that > in Cassandra if y

Re: Cassandra Needs to Grow Up by Version Five!

2018-02-19 Thread Rahul Singh
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