No. You can’t fairly compare Amazon OpsWorks to a CoreOS environment so we’re not going to do that. All I will say is that OpsWorks and Chef combined for an extremely slow and buggy deployment process which lead us to look for an alternate solution. We started experimenting with Docker a few months back to accelerate our… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Cassandra
Using Cassandra with Python and uWSGI
The latest Python DataStax Driver is a welcomed addition to the available Python clients that support CQL3 with Cassandra. One unfortunate pain point with this client (and possibly others) is the amount of time it takes to connect to a cluster. Because each connection requires the client to fetch the entire cluster’s schema, time-sensitive environments (such… Read more »
Experimental python-cassandra Performance Boost
We use Cassandra pretty heavily. With all of its advantages, one pain point for us has been the python-cassandra driver’s connection speed. Today, I finally dove into the code to figure out if I could squeeze out a little more juice or if I’d need to start caching results to keep our pages loading quickly…. Read more »