Tag book review

Why Slack isn’t working

Slack: Where work happens Something is happening at companies that use Slack. Slack, the company, may claim it’s work, but it’s less and less productive work, and it’s having a destructive affect upon my own field of software development. I…

Reviewing Elasticsearch Cookbook

I recently acted as one of the official technical reviewers for ElasticSearch Cookbook – Second Edition by Alberto Paro. Published by Packt Publishing, the book contains a large number of “recipes” for elasticsearch.

Book Review: Cassandra High Availability

Packt recently asked me to review their new publication Cassandra High Availability, written by Robbie Strickland. I’ve worked with Cassandra in the past — early designs of Loggly‘s 2nd generation Log analytics platform used Cassandra as its authoritative store for…

Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit

I came across a very readable paper on distributed systems — Distributed systems for fun and profit. I recommend it for anyone interested in learning more about distributed systems, and the challenges involved with designing, building, and operating distributed systems.

Book Review: Mastering ElasticSearch

Packt recently asked me to review their new publication Mastering ElasticSearch by Rafał Kuć and Marek Rogoziński. Since most of my experience with elasticsearch has been from a systems points of view — index management, cluster maintenance, indexing performance — I…