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This comment is super flagrant self promotion, but if you are an Australian developer who wants to stay in Australia and work at a scale only usually available in the US. Check out…

Cassandra doesn't require Zookeeper

https://github.com/instaclustr/cassandra-operator :)

They pretty much did the opposite of what Cassandra guidance recommends for GC tuning.

FYI we put out a blog post that talks a little bit more about why we decided to create a third party LTS release: https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/2016/10/19/patched-cassandr...

Cassandra has rack awareness...

I'm pretty surprised about the difference in latency though, throughput as you say will be different due to number of nodes. For any given replication factor in Cassandra, overhead…

So their benchmark of Cassandra against BigTable doesn't even match their previous benchmark of Cassandra. http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/03/cassandra-hi... How did t…

https://www.instaclustr.com/

Definitely try Cassandra and if you don't want to run it yourself try https://www.instaclustr.com/

By the same logic (and our hiring experiences), Australians are also cheap outside of Sydney and Melbourne.

This won't be a popular comment amongst my fellow Australians, but some of these points in the post don't ring true to me. Being a startup in Australia is hard, but being a startup…

Australia has an awesome tax incentive program for R&D that most startups will qualify for. We've recovered about 30% of our initial seed money from this: http://www.ausindustry.go…

Great idea although it doesn't appear to pick up the misuse of there, their and they're. I typed "I'm going to walk over their" and Nitpicker only told me that " I'm " is an inform…

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/runtime-config-rep...

Hot Standby in postgres is pretty damn good for replication (like you said making failover occur properly takes a little bit of effort but its not too hard). Also pgpool2 helps a l…