RustyRazorblade Consulting

About Me

For the last ten years I’ve worked on Apache Cassandra at some of the biggest deployments in the world including Apple and Netflix. Prior, I worked at The Last Pickle where I worked with over a hundred customers in a variety of industries, including finance, streaming media, cloud providers and other mission-critical systems.

I specialize in performance analysis, observability, performance tuning, and data modeling.

I’m also an Apache Cassandra Committer and am a PMC member.

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Apache Cassandra Training

This course covers a wide range of topics based on my experience running Cassandra in production for over a decade. I have worked on all aspects of Apache Cassandra on the biggest deployments in the world, including Apple and Netflix, as well as my experience helping teams while at The Last Pickle, and as an independent consultant.

This is an 6-week course, meeting once a week for 2.5 hours.

The schedule for the course is as follows:

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Consulting Services

Consulting

I have 20 years experience in software development, operations and performance tuning at some of the biggest software deployments on the planet, including Apple and Netflix.

I am a committer for the Apache Cassandra project, and am available to help your team be successful. I have a long, proven track record working with teams of various sizes on both short and long-term engagements.

  • On site training
  • Cluster health checks
  • Data modeling
  • Capacity planning
  • Benchmarking
  • Performance tuning
  • Cassandra feature development

Training

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Contact Me

Interested in discussing your use case? Email me, and we can set up a half-hour session to discuss your needs.

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Tools

My tools

easy-cass-stress

This is a load generation tool for Apache Cassandra, used in hundreds of environments. It was originally developed by me at The Last Pickle as tlp-stress. Get the source on GitHub.

easy-cass-lab

This is my tooling to quickly create lab environments for testing Apache Cassandra. It’s a distant fork of tooling I initially built while at The Last Pickle called tlp-cluster. Source available on GitHub

Apache Cassandra

Open source, petabyte scale distributed database that powers the most demanding applications in the world.

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