About 8 months ago, I decided to build a masterless, clustered redis clone with a more robust persistence and clustering strategy called kickboxer. One of the main challenges implementing a distributed redis clone is that almost all operations require doing a read before a write. Additionally, since most of the ...
Migrating Databases With Zero Downtime
Originally posted on tech.shift.com
We recently completed a massive database migration here at SHIFT.com. We migrated our application from using MongoDB / Titan as the primary datastore, to Cassandra, with no downtime or performance degradation.
Jon Haddad and I recently did a webinar with DataStax to talk about ...