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• 11 Jun 2013 » HBase Consistent Secondary Indexing

  Secondary indexing for HBase is a difficult problem, but remains perennially popular. Various implementations exist, but all fall short either in features or latency. [Phoenix](http://www.github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix) is soon gaining support for what we consider "HBase Consistent" Secondary indexing....(read more)

• 01 Dec 2012 » Guest Blogging

  I was recently asked to write a few guest blog posts about HBase. I'd had some ideas bouncing around for a while (and a little personal brand expansion is never a bad thing), so I started working on it. Here's some of my thoughts from the experience...(read more)

• 05 Nov 2012 » Rolling Java GC Logs

  In java 1.6_34, rolling GC logs was added. However, the documentation is wrong and hard to find. Here's how you manage it...(read more)

• 09 Jul 2012 » Consistent Enough Secondary Indexing

  Distributed systems inherently trade-off consistency or availability, making it very difficult (but doable) to implement secondary indexes at scale...(read more)

• 02 May 2012 » Table References in the HBase Shell

  How to use the new table references in the HBase shell...(read more)

• 01 May 2012 » Heads Down, Thumbs Up

  Of late, I've been really busy - let me explain....(read more)

• 03 Feb 2012 » HBase Eclipse Support

  How-To develop for HBase within Eclipse...(read more)

• 02 Jan 2012 » Building Big

  A lot of this post is based on my recent discussions with a few companies - both big and small - who are attempting to 'change the paradigm' either of society in general,...(read more)

• 10 Dec 2011 » High Tech Colors

  This is the point where Jobs fell out of love with the style of cool, dark colors and more in favor of the style of many of Apple's...(read more)

• 02 Dec 2011 » Technical Leadership

  Yesterday I was talking with a potential future boss and was talking about what I was looking for in my next position...(read more)

• 26 Nov 2011 » Vagrant + Chef - Tips and Tricks

  Some general tips and tricks for using Vagrant and Chef. Dont know what I'm taking about? I'll explain the latest in VM coolness too....(read more)

• 22 Nov 2011 » The Worst Case

  Just go and do it. The worst case is your life stays exactly the same....(read more)

• 17 Nov 2011 » Intro To Culvert

  Culvert is a secondary indexing platform for BigTable, which means it provides everything you need to write indexes...(read more)

• 16 Nov 2011 » Filling in the BigTable Gaps

  BigTable is an amazingly scalable system, but has some missing features....(read more)

• 11 Nov 2011 » Welcome to My Blog

  First post! Welcome to my blog/about me......(read more)