Is Virgil production ready?

[yuri.pa...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Just came across Virgil and I'm pretty excited. I'm writing a batch ETL project and currently evaluating different technologies. Can you help me to get a sense, is Virgil really production-ready? Can it scale? How could I leverage batch processing with Virgil via json if at all?

I'm currently thinking of using Dropwizard-(Spring/JPA) (ease of use!) to boot-strap itself via its own client to send quartz-timed batch payloads to the Virgil server. Does this sound cool or lame?? Would this scale??

Thanks you!!

[Brian O'Neill]

Great to hear you're considering Virgil.  We have Virgil in production, but we don't use it for batch processing. That said, I've been able to push substantial load through it in dev and test environments.

What we do to scale Virgil…

We deploy a Virgil instance on each Cassandra host/instance.  Then you can put a load balancer in front of the Virgil instances.  With that setup, you should be able to scale Virgil to meet your demand. 

RE: JPA

Are you going to use JPA against Cassandra?  (w/ Kundera?)

-brian

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Brian O'Neill

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Apache Cassandra MVP

 

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