Joined DataStax Engineering Team

In April I joined DataStax as a director of engineering on the DataStax Enterprise engineering team. I meant to post something here during my first week, but have been kind of busy since I started (understatement!). We sell an enterprise-class version of the open-source Cassandra database, along with service, support, and training. We also support the Cassandra community and the open-source project itself (the Apache Cassandra committee chair and many committers are all DataStax employees). My first five week have been both busy and exciting. Here are some observations and highlights so far: It’s great to work for a smaller…

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