A blog about software development, mostly in Java and an emphasis on Big Data, noSql (Cassandra) and webapps. Many posts relate to the ac32007 (now ac32009) (Internet Programming) and ac41011 (Big Data) modules I teach at the University of Dundee I started playing with failover in Casssandra the other day and rapidly found myself in a bit of a pickle. I had a 2 node development environment allowin