This article is a continuation of my previous article where I talked about Rust and ScyllaDB. (Part 3 of the series is here) This article is the second part of a series of articles where I will show real world use cases implemented using Rust alongside some other key technologies…

Introduction In this article, I will discuss the implications of running Spark with Cassandra compared to the most common use case which is using a deep storage system such as S3 of HDFS. The goal is to understand the internals of Spark and Cassandra so…

Introduction Since I got involved in DevOps and Big Data, I’ve been using two excellent but quite different programming languages: GO and Scala. Scala is an older and more mature programming language that has found its niche in areas such concurrent programming and Big Data processing. Go, in the other hand…

Introduction Big Data is complex, I have written quite a bit about the vast ecosystem and the wide range of options available. One aspect that is often ignored but critical, is managing the execution of the different steps of a big data pipeline. …

Introduction I’ve been looking at different massive scale databases for a while now. Recently, I had the opportunity to explore StarRocks which is the new kid in the block when talking about massive scale databases which are able to handle petabytes of data. StarRocks is an open-source, distributed, and columnar database…

This article is part of a series of articles (first part and second part) which focuses of writing production grade Rust applications in order to prove that Rust can be used to run production workloads safety. In this article, we are going to write a CLI that can be used…

If you love writing high performant code and also love the power of Kubernetes, I think you are going to find interesting this article where I will explore K6, an open source easy-to-use load testing framework which has the best support for Kubernetes. …

This article is the first part of a series (part 2 & part 3)of articles where I will show real world use cases implemented using Rust alongside some other key technologies. The goal is to prove Rust can be used safely for production workloads and that to do so is…

Introduction If you are not new to Kubernetes, probably you heard this a million times: “Do not run databases on Kubernetes!”; and if you were in 2016 that may be true, but not anymore; in fact, I would go as far as saying that Kubernetes is now the best platform to…