Datastax MVPs for Cassandra
Last month, John and I were named Datastax MVPs for Cassandra at the Cassandra Summit EU in London, and have now joined the rest of the Datastax Rebel Elite,…
Last month, John and I were named Datastax MVPs for Cassandra at the Cassandra Summit EU in London, and have now joined the rest of the Datastax Rebel Elite,…
For the past several months OpenSource Connections headquarters has served as an underground, no-cost coworking hot spot, and weve had such a good time with it that weve decided…
Last week I went to Defcon, the premiere security conference that attracted 15,000 security experts and Will Smith to Las Vegas. Here are a few lessons I learned hanging…
Tim Berners-Lee original vision was for the web is what we today call the Semantic Web: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable ofanalyzing…
The middle of May saw me road tripping to not just one, but two Enterprise Search Summits to tell some war stories in doing search at scale. I attended…
Its just been confirmed that Ill be giving a tutorial at StrataConf + Hadoop World this October in New York. My tutorial is: “An Introduction to Real-Time Analytics with…
National Day of Civic Hacking at OpenSource Connections What OSC is excited to join 86 other venues across the US for civic hacking and camaraderie. Come join us and…
Were cohosting a hackathon with FoundationDB on Friday. For those of you not in the know, FoundationDB is a pretty exciting addition to the NoSQL space. It brings flexible,…
Opensource Connections is proud to host beSwarm What beSwarm is a gathering of tech enthusiasts from all over central Virginia to discuss, share, and learn about anything that interests…
Im just starting to think about updating the book Solr Enterprise Search Server that David Smiley and I co-authored for Solr 4 now that it is very close to…
Matt Overstreet was the Master of Ceremonies for the Richmond Startup Weekend earlier this month. And the guest speaker was Aneesh Chopra, first CTO of the United States. Matt…
For the past year Ive been talking with Christopher Ball and Erik Hatcher about how frustrating it is to have to carve time out of our regular day jobs…