Jun
25
2010
Did you ever hear a claim that sounded too bad to be true?
So this past Tuesday at Velocity 2010, Brett Piatt gave a workshop on the Cassandra database. I was seated in the audience and quite interested in everything he had to say about running Cassandra, given that I’ve been working on adding Cassandra and other scalable data stores to Ubuntu.
Then at one point, up popped a table that made me curious.
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Jun
11
2010
So, in my role at
Canonical, I’ve been asked to package some of the hotter “web 2.0″ and “cloud” server technologies for
Ubuntu‘s next release, 10.10, aka “Maverick Meerkat”.
While working on this, I’ve discovered something very frustrating from a packaging point of view thats been going on with fast moving open source projects. It would seem that rather than produce stable API’s that do not change, there is a preference to dump feature after feature into libraries and software products
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