After reading about distributed database solutions and watching the entire NOSQL movement I had to figure out a way to start building something on a distributed database system. While I only needed one server to get started on (i.e. I didn’t need multiple database nodes right away), I already have a couple projects that are breaking from the old MySQL replication plus Memcached problems (effectively articulated here). In other words, it’s becoming a pain in the butt to maintain the system so I decided to dive in. Here’s how I first got setup.

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Before diving in to the tutorial, I thought it would be useful to mention that developers who are far more qualified to speak on the topic of Cassandra and other distributed data storage models will be speaking at our upcoming... [View Full Article]