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Dittoed.

While I graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (and rarely attended), I started to code my freshman year in college (2003) after my dormitory neighbor got me interested in computers; he wore a robe most of the time, had a hefty beard, and kept a bucket of computer parts in his closet. He talked a lot about IP tables :) It's only been down the rabbit hole ever since!

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EDIT: the API call works now.

We partner with Datastax as their go-to hosted solution for Cassandra; their support tiers don't include operations or instance management. We handle all Cassandra maintenance, ring expansion, daily backups, and upgrades. Upgrades are an interesting one, as critical updates to Cassandra sometimes require client updates as well. Since it is very possible for you to break things, we also handle data and schema rollbacks on a per-keyspace basis. The REST API is really cool because there are a a lot of Hector operations built in for data management (reads and modeling) you wouldn't have to do using a client. Secured access can be given to AWS private IPs or Security Groups as well, so you don't get charged for data transfer to/from ring from clients.

Hidden makes a whole lot more sense!

Interesting. Just because it's standard, doesn't necessarily make it perfect? I guess I'm just looking for a versioned script repository that's authenticated and has an easy API to roll credentials. Is it too much to ask!? :)

So, ideally, if you "shared" an endpoint, and the Gist was marked "private", you'd get something standard like "unathenticated". Why else make it private?

There is definitely a learning curve associated with proper NoSQL data-modeling (and slightly different for each of the above stated DBs), but a place for both relational and non exists, as they each solve different problems! (NoSQL being really good at time-series data)

np!

Kind of like 0MQ, but with JSON?

I originally built node-monitor (https://github.com/franklovecchio/node-monitor/tree/v0.5) to monitor multiple servers; I was trying to emulate Splunk by sending all data from an environment to a couple servers, which then pushed out to websockets (live log viewing) + POSTed to CloudWatch. Ended up throwing out the socket piece because it was a pain in the ass to manage.

On a side note, you can scale what would be single-instance architecture with something like messenger (think an MQtt.js broker).

The startup I work for is filled with boxes of Arduino parts, Enterprise devices in different stages, and anything we find on the interwebs that makes a cool demo (e.g. shit that flys and has an Android SDK) -- I wouldn't have it any other way. We don't manufacture these devices, but being able to build software for something physically tangible is much more gratifying, I think.

What about 0MQ and MQtt? Both of those are "realtime" solutions, and can also be integrated with devices, like phones (Facebook Messenger, for one). 0MQ has flashsocket support, too.

Maybe it's the half-Italian in me...but I love the framework trend for Rat Pack and Co. allusions.

All good questions! A base ring is 4 nodes (one in each us-east zone), and you can choose m1.small, m1.large, and m1.xlarge instances. This allows you to create keyspaces with RF 3 safely. I don't have prices on-hand, but I believe the m1.large base-ring is somewhere around 1K a month (snapshot backups/rollbacks included, etc). We're looking for beta testers for the Enterprise version, so deals might be able to be made if you contact the Zendesk e-mail (support@2lemetry.zendesk.com)! Regarding transfer of data and cost, we can add your AWS accounts/AWS security groups to the ring's ACL so you'd be able to use AWS private IP addresses for free data transfer within Amazon regions. Let me know if you have any more questions.

For those who are newer to Cassandra, or don't want to host it themselves, we offer a hosted solution on Heroku (just REST), or a managed Enterprise ring (with a REST API) -- http://cassandra.io . I apologize for the website...we just hired a UI guy :)

I do the same thing for testing branches and continuous deployment on EC2! +1.

Sure. I'm actually working on a bootstrap project which uses Gists and Node.js to spin up a scaling infrastructure: https://github.com/franklovecchio/yc-bootstrap. Instead of using CloudFormation, which I loathe, or Puppet/Chef (which have a learning curve and infrastructure for latter), I use standard bash libraries (see yc-bootstrap/gists/) and "extend" them to spin up instances -- see the README under "Gisting": (https://github.com/franklovecchio/yc-bootstrap/blob/master/R...). That example is what the user-data file would be.

I use Gists as user-data files for EC2 deployments. Works amazingly well.

Looking at its config, I'm reminded of Cassandra 0.6, but then I see the ZooKeeper functionality. Interesting. Love the open-sourcing! I showed an example of how to distribute inter-mingled DBs using MQtt a bit ago, but never posted here: http://franklovecchio.tumblr.com/post/13051814890/mqdb-distr....

One thing is for sure -- NoSQL isn't so mysterious anymore :)