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Instant File Server: turn any directory into a webserver with a simple command 14 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
Our engineering team has been neck-deep in configuration hell lately. Editing 2000-line Solr configuration files, trying to get Apache Oozie integrated into DataStax Enterprise, Cassandra 1.2 upgrades...
Cassandra Summit Talk: Real Time Analytics with Cassandra, Hive, and Solr 18 Jul 2013 | 09:41 pm
I spoke at the Cassandra Summit this year about how we use Cassandra, Hive, and Solr in production at MarkedUp Analytics. Planet Cassandra recently made all of the videos and slides available and I t...
Brush the Dust Away 15 Jul 2013 | 09:27 pm
This post is about stress. It's been nearly a year since I started MarkedUp Analytics, and we've come a long way - I've raised money, won the business of some amazing customers, built the nucleus of ...
What Do You Need to Become an Elite Developer? 3 Jun 2013 | 01:58 am
MarkedUp Analytics’s customers are developers and so are most of the people who work at the company, so I spend a lot of time thinking about and refining my answers to the following two questions: Wh...
Live by “Fuck you, pay me;” Die by “Fuck you, pay me” 26 Mar 2013 | 10:57 am
I came across a blog post by Michael Halligan on Hacker News last week entitled “Benefits matter, or why I won’t work for your YCombinator start-up.” As a fledging entrepreneur trying to attract senio...
Migrating from RavenDB to Cassandra 21 Feb 2013 | 05:30 am
Today on the MarkedUp Analytics Blog I authored a post entitled “Cassandra, Hive, and Hadoop: How We Picked Our Analytics Stack.” In it I explain MarkedUp’s evaluation process for choosing a new data...
10 Reasons Why You’re Failing to Realize Your Potential as a Developer 7 Feb 2013 | 12:10 am
Since going full-time on my own startup 6 months ago, I’ve spent a lot of my time recruiting, evaluating, and working with a lot of different developers. My startup, MarkedUp, is an analytics provider...
Be Your Own Measuring Stick 4 Dec 2012 | 09:54 am
Today was one of those days when it was nearly 1pm before I was free to sit down and make my daily to-do list. There was water damage in my apartment, one of our awesome engineering candidates took an...
Get a Grip 21 Nov 2012 | 02:25 pm
My regular source of entrepreneurial catharsis is watching Deadliest Catch. If you've never seen it, it's a Discovery Channel show that follows four-six actual fishing vessels during two different Al...
5 Key Themes from Microsoft on the Future of Windows and WinRT from the //BUILD Keynote 31 Oct 2012 | 12:12 am
I posted this originally on The MarkedUp Analytics Blog, going to put an excerpt here and then link you to the original post. 1. “Microsoft can only win by training consumers to expect consistent beh...
