Recently, I have read posts and received questions around being locked into a public cloud vendor. The concern here is that it’s hard to say who the winner in the cloud space is going to be. What happens if Microsoft’s Azure surpasses Amazon’s AWS? Oh, and didn’t Oracle just announced their new cloud? These are, […]
Posts by Stefan Piesche
Microservices at Constant Contact
March 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Over the last few months, the buzz around Microservices has become omnipresent. Tech conferences, blog posts, technology forums – even analysts feel compelled to chime in (I sometimes wish they wouldn’t). Of course, Constant Contact is no different. I get the occasional email about ‘look what cool things Netflix is doing with Microservices’ or questions like shouldn’t […]
Cassandra and Sharded MySQL
March 16, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Stefan Piesche, Constant Contact CTO, spoke at the Data @Scale conference in Boston, hosted by Facebook. He discussed how Constant Contact moved from scaling data vertically in large DB2 databases attached to even larger SANs, to using Cassandra as a horizontally scalable data tier for key/value type data. CTCT used to scale data vertically in large DB2 […]
Into the Cloud?
February 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Over the last few months, I have been to a couple of conferences on cloud technologies. It’s hard to go to a tech conference and not see a topic on cloud computing (or Big Data, but that’s a topic for another time). There are many types of clouds, too, but in this blog we are […]
