Tag: DevOps

Recapping the 2nd Annual Engineers4Engineers Conference

Last month, over 325 engineers from the southern New England software development community converged on Constant Contact’s Small Business InnoLoft for the second annual Engineers4Engineers (E4E) conference. Fourteen speakers from all over the US and UK, including 3 Constant Contact engineers, spoke on topics concerning JavaScript, DevOps, and product development. The day was packed with […]

Cassandra and Backups

Cassandra is a peer-to-peer, fault-tolerant system. Data is replicated among multiple nodes across multiple data centers. Single or even multi-node failures can be recovered from surviving nodes with the data. Restores from backups are unnecessary in the event of disk or system hardware failure even if an entire site goes off-line.  As long as there […]