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Technical articles

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:27:27 +0000

Technical articles

:gb: I like to share some of my findings and experience in blog posts so that they can be found and referred to easily.

Feel free to c...

Building a 100% ScyllaDB Shard-Aware Application Using Rust

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Building a 100% ScyllaDB Shard-Aware Application Using Rust

I wrote a web transcript of the talk I gave with my colleagues Joseph and Yassir at [Scylla Su...

How to reset your Yubikey when you locked your PIN

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

How to reset your Yubikey when you locked your PIN

This article is a short reminder of the procedure to follow to reset a Yubikeyto its factory defaults ...

Learning Rust the hard way for a production Kafka+ScyllaDB pipeline

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Learning Rust the hard way for a production Kafka+ScyllaDB pipeline

This is the web version of the talk I gave at [Scylla Summit 2022](https://www.scyllad...

Create beautiful and localized documentations and websites using MkDocs + Github

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Create beautiful and localized documentations and websites using MkDocs + Github

This is the web version of the talk I gave at [EuroPython 2021](https://e...

On Scylla Manager Suspend & Resume feature

Thu, 06 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

On Scylla Manager Suspend & Resume feature

!!! warning "Disclaimer" This blog post is neither a rant nor intended to undermine the great work that...

Migrating from Wordpress to Mkdocs

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

From Wordpress to MkDocs

The idea of a statically built website has been in my mind for a while but Inever found a satisfying stack to make it happen unt...

Renaming and reshaping Scylla tables using scylla-migrator

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We have recently faced a problem where some of the first Scylla tables we created on our main production cluster were not in line any more with the evolved s...

py3status v3.29

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Almost 5 months after the latest release (thank you COVID) I'm pleased and relieved to have finally packaged and pushed py3status v3.29 to PyPi and Gento...

Python scylla-driver: how we unleashed the Scylla monster's performance

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

At Scylla summit 2019 I had the chance to meet Israel Fruchter and we dreamed of working on adding **shard...

py3status v3.28 - goodbye py2.6-3.4

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The newest version of py3status starts to enforce the deprecation of Python 2.6 to 3.4 (included) initiated by [Thiago Kenji Okada](https://github.com/th...

Scylla Summit 2019

Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I've had the pleasure to attend again and present at the Scylla Summit in San Francisco and the honor to be awarded the...

py3status v3.20 - EuroPython 2019 edition

Sun, 22 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Shame on me to post this so long after it happened... Still, that's a funny story to tell and a lot of thank you to give so let's go!

The py3status Euro...

Meet the py3status logo

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I'm proud and very pleased to introduce the py3status logo that Tobaloidee has created for our beloved project!

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Scylla: four ways to optimize your disk space consumption

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

We recently had to face free disk space outages on some of our scylla clusters and we learnt some very interesting things while outlining some improvements t...

py3status v3.17

Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I'm glad to announce a new (awaited) release of py3status featuring support for the sway window manager which allows py3status to enter the wayland e...

Bye bye Google Analytics

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A few days ago, I removed Google Analytics from my blog and trashed the associated account.

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py3status v3.16

Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Two py3status versions in less than a month? That's the holidays effect but not only!

Our community has been busy discussing our way forward to 4.0 (see...

Scylla Summit 2018 write-up

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

It's been almost one month since I had the chance to attend and speak at Scylla Summit 2018 so I'm reliev...

py3status v3.14

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I'm happy to announce this release as it contains some very interesting developments in the project. This [release was focused](https://github.com/ultrabug/p...

py3status v3.13

Fri, 28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I am once again lagging behind the release blog posts but this one is an important one.

I'm proud to announce that our long time contributor @lasers has...

Authenticating and connecting to a SSL enabled Scylla cluster using Spark 2

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This quick article is a wrap up for reference on how to connect to ScyllaDB using Spark 2 when authentication and SSL are enforced for the clients on the...

A botspot story

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I felt like sharing a recent story that allowed us identify a bot in a haystack thanks to Scylla.

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py3status v3.8

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Another long awaited release has come true thanks to our community!

The changelog is so h...

Evaluating ScyllaDB for production 2/2

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In my previous blog post, I shared [7 lessons on our experience in evaluating Scylla](https://www.ultrabug.fr...

Evaluating ScyllaDB for production 1/2

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I have recently been conducting a quite deep evaluation of ScyllaDB to find out if we could benefit from this database in some of...

Talks page

Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I finally decided to put up a page on this website referencing the talks I've been giving over the last few years.

You'll s...

py3status v3.7

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This important release has been long awaited as it focused on improving overall performance of py3status as well as dramatically decreasing its **mem...

Gentoo Linux on DELL XPS 13 9365 and 9360

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Since I received some positive feedback about my previous DELL XPS 9350 post, I am writing this s...

Gentoo Linux listed RethinkDB's website

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The rethinkdb's website has (finally) been updated and Gentoo ...