Working with tombstones can be one of the more frustrating aspects of Apache Cassandra®. Problems with tombstones can happen when a large number of deletes occur within a short period of time, resulting in slower queries and disk bloat. This article will discuss tombstones, including the purpose they serve, and strategies/methods on how to avoid them. Tombstones in Apache Cassandra® are written markers that …

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own. — Bruce Lee Do you want to build Project Panama’s Jextract tool by yourself? I can show you how! If you’ve seen any of my past articles on Project Panama I’ve mentioned a really convenient tool called jextract that can generate Java binding code that …

Let’s use Java to automate a boring task and have a party! Warning, this can lead to noise nuisance from singing and dancing… It has been a while since I last had to create documents in a program, and iText has been “on my radar” to try out for a while now. This weekend we had a party and wanted …