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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

At the same time, I was also working on the product. In my attempt to build credibility and recruit people for my little company, I had started the Pittsburgh Java Users Group (the PittJUG today has close to 500 members!). Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds. Raising money in Pittsburgh was not going to be easy.

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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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