On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:28 PM, Paul Querna wrote: > So, I guess this is coming down to: > 1) Has anyone built any easy to install packages of Cassandra?
I didn't find it necessary. I implemented a simple embedding wrapper for Cassandra so that it could be started as part of a web application lifecycle (Spring-managed). Developers just start up a personal copy of the service as part of "mvn -Pembedded-cassandra jetty:run" being none the wiser about the Cassandra underneath unless they care to be. > 2) Can anyone explain their experience with getting non-Cassandra > developers up and running in a development environment? What worked? > What was hard? I've had technically savvy non-developer resources perfectly happy to work with the system via Ruby, PHP, or even the Cassandra CLI. "Just do mvn -Pembedded-cassandra jetty:run" was too much in that case, but "Here are some useful libraries and here's where the prod/staging clusters are" was fine. -- Paul B
