Archives: britt

Screencast Example Code

Here is the example project that we used in the HiveDB screencast along with a SQL script to create the databases. You can get the project a couple of ways:

Update: the screencast example code is no longer available on GitHub. However you can download a tarball here.
Checkout the screencast branch from GitHub

$ git clone […]

HiveDB Screencast

A partitioned database in just 15 minutes.
We’ve put together a screencast that gives a quick introduction to working with HiveDB and Hibernate Shards. We’ve tried hard to make it as easy and as much like working with regular Hibernate as possible. With this tutorial you should be able to get a partitioned data […]

Switching from SVN to Git

We are switching our version control repository from Subversion to Git. Initially I read Why Distributed Version Control Matter to You, Today and shrugged my shoulders and said, “Maybe so, but subversion works fine.” However we recently ran into a situation where we needed more robust branching and merging features than Subversion had […]