Aaron Ploetz
@aploetz.bsky.social
Engineer, author, father, husband, Minnesotan, Brewers fan; not necessarily in that order. Player of games. Slayer of fish. 🍺 Opinions.equals("mine");
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Real World Use Case : Building an E-commerce Site on Cassandra, Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 10:00 AM | Meetup
Join us for an insightful session with Aaron Ploetz as he walks through a real-world use case: Building an E-commerce Site on Apache Cassandra. Many of today’s top retailer
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September 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I will be presenting "Cassandra backups made easy with Medusa and Kubernetes" as part of the @Cassandra track at Community over Code North America 2025; in Minneapolis, MN September 11-14, 2025. Schedule & info: communityovercode.org #CommunityOverCode #TheASF #ApacheCassandra
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The ASF Conference
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August 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I will be presenting "Cassandra backups made easy with Medusa and Kubernetes" as part of the @Cassandra track at Community over Code North America 2025; in Minneapolis, MN September 11-14, 2025. Schedule & info: communityovercode.org #CommunityOverCode #TheASF #ApacheCassandra
So apparently we ARE going to pretend that she’s a good time.
July 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
So apparently we ARE going to pretend that she’s a good time.
Happy 4th of July everyone!
a man in a red and white outfit is playing a guitar in front of fireworks .
ALT: a man in a red and white outfit is playing a guitar in front of fireworks .
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July 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Happy 4th of July everyone!
Stack Overflow gets a bit of a boost today, because ChatGPT is down.
They are also currently hosting their annual moderator elections. In years past, a couple-dozen people would run for moderator...now there's just 6.
The slow death of SO will be studied for years.
They are also currently hosting their annual moderator elections. In years past, a couple-dozen people would run for moderator...now there's just 6.
The slow death of SO will be studied for years.
June 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Stack Overflow gets a bit of a boost today, because ChatGPT is down.
They are also currently hosting their annual moderator elections. In years past, a couple-dozen people would run for moderator...now there's just 6.
The slow death of SO will be studied for years.
They are also currently hosting their annual moderator elections. In years past, a couple-dozen people would run for moderator...now there's just 6.
The slow death of SO will be studied for years.
100% this.
It's 2030. There is a massive demand for human senior developers to fix garbage made by Vibe coders. 🙃
May 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
100% this.
Wow, I can get ChatGPT Certified in 7 days? Definitely seems like a legit, respectable operation.
May 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Wow, I can get ChatGPT Certified in 7 days? Definitely seems like a legit, respectable operation.
Happy to announce that I have accepted an invitation to officially join the Apache Cassandra® project as a committer!
March 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Happy to announce that I have accepted an invitation to officially join the Apache Cassandra® project as a committer!
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First JDK 24 Release Candidate: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd...
Downloads: jdk.java.net/24/
#JDK24 #Java24 #OpenJDK #TestItNow
Downloads: jdk.java.net/24/
#JDK24 #Java24 #OpenJDK #TestItNow
February 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
First JDK 24 Release Candidate: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd...
Downloads: jdk.java.net/24/
#JDK24 #Java24 #OpenJDK #TestItNow
Downloads: jdk.java.net/24/
#JDK24 #Java24 #OpenJDK #TestItNow
This is Sunny. Because right now the world needs more Husky puppies.
February 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is Sunny. Because right now the world needs more Husky puppies.
1. Software Developer
2. Management/Computer Systems
3. n/a
4. Developer Relations Engineer (and author)
2. Management/Computer Systems
3. n/a
4. Developer Relations Engineer (and author)
If you went to college:
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what to?
4. what do you do now professionally?
1. Reporter
2. English
3. Didn’t change majors
4. Learning and Development
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what to?
4. what do you do now professionally?
1. Reporter
2. English
3. Didn’t change majors
4. Learning and Development
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what to?
4. what do you do now professionally?
1. Reporter
2. PoliSci (advised to work for college paper not major in j)
3. Didnt
4. Fitness instructor (after 35 yrs in journalism)
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what to?
4. what do you do now professionally?
1. Reporter
2. PoliSci (advised to work for college paper not major in j)
3. Didnt
4. Fitness instructor (after 35 yrs in journalism)
January 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1. Software Developer
2. Management/Computer Systems
3. n/a
4. Developer Relations Engineer (and author)
2. Management/Computer Systems
3. n/a
4. Developer Relations Engineer (and author)
This 100%.
Yes, I can. I'll say this ONE more time.
Posting on social media isn't doing that. It's an argument loop. I do what I can in real life. I vote, I donate, I speak to people and listen.
NOT EVERY SPACE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER CONSTANT POLITICAL DISCOURSE. I already see it everywhere else, I'm all set.
Posting on social media isn't doing that. It's an argument loop. I do what I can in real life. I vote, I donate, I speak to people and listen.
NOT EVERY SPACE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER CONSTANT POLITICAL DISCOURSE. I already see it everywhere else, I'm all set.
You can't just ignore something, and it goes away. That only works cartoons. To make something go away, you have to stand up against it. You have to push back. You may even have to fight back. Just don't ignore it.Or it'll get worse, that's why we're in this mess to begin with!
January 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This 100%.
“For people who are still posting on X, after the nazi salute, what’s keeping you there?”
For me, it’s about an appropriate mix of perspectives and discourse. You can post something on X and people will both agree and disagree. BlueSky, on the other hand, is sadly a bit of a leftist echo chamber.
For me, it’s about an appropriate mix of perspectives and discourse. You can post something on X and people will both agree and disagree. BlueSky, on the other hand, is sadly a bit of a leftist echo chamber.
January 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“For people who are still posting on X, after the nazi salute, what’s keeping you there?”
For me, it’s about an appropriate mix of perspectives and discourse. You can post something on X and people will both agree and disagree. BlueSky, on the other hand, is sadly a bit of a leftist echo chamber.
For me, it’s about an appropriate mix of perspectives and discourse. You can post something on X and people will both agree and disagree. BlueSky, on the other hand, is sadly a bit of a leftist echo chamber.
Re-reading part of my book “Code with Java 21,” and not to toot my own horn, but I’m really proud of how the “Working with Databases” chapter turned out.
January 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Re-reading part of my book “Code with Java 21,” and not to toot my own horn, but I’m really proud of how the “Working with Databases” chapter turned out.
The irony of AI answering this is pretty crazy.
January 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The irony of AI answering this is pretty crazy.
Had a Java project that was mis-classified on GitHub. Reminder: For Java repos with front end components (like Vaadin generates) you can fix this by adding a few lines to your .gitattributes file:
*.html linguist-detectable=false
*.ts linguist-detectable=false
*.js linguist-detectable=false
*.html linguist-detectable=false
*.ts linguist-detectable=false
*.js linguist-detectable=false
January 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Had a Java project that was mis-classified on GitHub. Reminder: For Java repos with front end components (like Vaadin generates) you can fix this by adding a few lines to your .gitattributes file:
*.html linguist-detectable=false
*.ts linguist-detectable=false
*.js linguist-detectable=false
*.html linguist-detectable=false
*.ts linguist-detectable=false
*.js linguist-detectable=false
An absolute legend. We will miss Ueck so much.
January 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
An absolute legend. We will miss Ueck so much.
Got out on the ice on Saturday, but had more beers than bites. 🤷♂️🎣🍺
January 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Got out on the ice on Saturday, but had more beers than bites. 🤷♂️🎣🍺
New Planet Cassandra (virtual) meetup scheduled for the end of the month!
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CEP-44: Kafka Integration for Cassandra CDC Using Sidecar, Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 10:00 AM | Meetup
**1\. Overview**
* In this session, we’ll explore how the new Change Data Capture (CDC) feature in Apache Cassandra enables real-time streaming of table mutations to Kafka
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January 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New Planet Cassandra (virtual) meetup scheduled for the end of the month!
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