README.md

Example implementation of tinyurl using erlang and cassandra.

This is not meant for production use. It's just an example. I've left out lots of important stuff that's not required for the example. The purpose of this application is to demonstrate what's required to talk to cassandra from Erlang via its Thrift interface.

The API Document contains all of the data types and methods. The data types are generated as record definitions via thrift code generation, see cassandra/cassandra_types.hrl.

Things that it does:

• Connects to cassandra
• Reads records get
• Writes records batch_mutate

Things that it doesn't do:

• Connection problem handling
• Connection pooling
• Handle race conditions around token generation

Implementation notes:

• Use framed mode for Cassandra 0.7 or greater
• Do not use framed mode for Cassandra 0.6 or below
• The map type in the Cassandra IDL expects an Erlang dict type
• See cassandra_types.hrl for all of the types defined to match the IDL
• See etiny:url_for_token/2 for an example of loading data
• See etiny:token_for_stored_url/3 for an example of storing data

Resources:

• Cassandra
• Thrift
• Cassandra API Documentation