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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. At the same time, I was also working on the product. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. It was only a question of when, where, and how.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

by Adrian Cockcroft and Denis Sheahan Netflix has been rolling out the Apache Cassandra NoSQL data store for production use over the last six months. We picked a write oriented benchmark using the standard Cassandra "stress" tool that is part of the product, and Denis ran and analyzed the tests on Amazon EC2 instances.

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