Clivern

A Software Engineer and Occasional Writer.

Apache Cassandra for Developers Part 2

01 October 2021

In Cassandra for Developers Part 1, I explained how to run cassandra cluster with docker, replication and consistency strategies. Here i will explain CQL statements, data types and multi-row partitions

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Working with Nginx Ingress Controller

02 August 2021

A Kubernetes Ingress is a robust way to expose your services outside the cluster. It lets you consolidate your routing rules to a single resource, and gives you powerful options for configuring these rules.

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Separate Test Cases in Golang With Build Tags

02 January 2021

A build tag or a build constraint as described in the build package documentation, is a line comment that begins `// +build` that lists the conditions under which a file should be included in the package.

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Kubernetes Services in a Nutshell

30 May 2020

Service is a resource you create to make a single, constant point of entry to a group of pods providing the same service. Each service has an IP address and port that never change while the service exists. Clients can open connections to that IP and port, and those connections are then routed to one of the pods backing that service. This way, clients of a service don’t need to know the location of individual pods providing the service, allowing those pods to be moved around the cluster at any time.

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Apache Cassandra for Developers Part 1

26 May 2020

Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source, distributed, NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple datacenters, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients.

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Kubernetes Deployment in a Nutshell

04 April 2020

Deployment is a higher-level resource meant for deploying applications and updating them declaratively, instead of doing it through a ReplicationController or a ReplicaSet, which are both considered lower-level concepts.

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Concurrency in Elixir

03 January 2020

Concurrency is a fundamental concept in Elixir, a functional programming language built on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Elixir provides powerful tools and abstractions for managing concurrent processes, making it ideal for building scalable and fault-tolerant systems.

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A Deep Dive into Metrics Based Alerting With Elasticsearch

02 January 2020

Elasticsearch is an open-source, distributed search and analytics engine based on the Lucene search engine library. It is designed to handle large volumes of data in real-time and provides fast, efficient search and analysis capabilities. Elasticsearch is commonly used for log analysis, full-text search, and business analytics

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