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Posted to dev@cassandra.apache.org by Henrik Ingo <he...@datastax.com> on 2022/07/04 18:33:14 UTC
[DISCUSS] Cassandra ecosystem site
Hi all
One thing that is common to all successful large open source projects is
that they inevitably grow a huge ecosystem of plugins, addons or supporting
tools that are independent from the official core project. For example
addons.mozilla.org and pypi.org are two examples of what I mean.
Some time ago I stumbled into flink-packages.org . As you might guess it's
a catalogue of 3rd party plugins for Apache Flink. The source code is
available at https://github.com/ververica/flink-ecosystem so I decided to
fork it and do s/Flink/Cassandra/ and see where that brings me.
It ended up like this: http://35.184.128.58/ and
https://github.com/henrikingo/flink-ecosystem
With the help of some colleagues we've populated the site with the entries
from https://cassandra.apache.org/_/ecosystem.html plus some other things
we could think of. The point with the site is that anyone is welcome to
authenticate with your github account, and submit an entry with links to
your favorite Cassandra addon or tool. The idea is that for example the
developer of a tool is welcome to add and maintain their own entry.
Currently the site is in my personal GCP account. The proposal - which I
would like to hear discussion and feedback on - is essentially to replace
https://cassandra.apache.org/_/ecosystem.html with this site. It could live
at something like ecosystem.cassandra.apache.org for example. The goal of
this would be to give more visibility to software that is part of the
Cassandra ecosystem in the wider/widest sense. For example, in addition to
launching this site, we could feature individual tools/addons in blogs and
social media.
I'm happy to share admin access with a few additional volunteers, or for
that matter to move the site to a server I don't need to pay for and
maintain. If we do want to start using this, maybe an immediate need would
be to setup a backup of the MySQL database that hosts the contents of the
site.
henrik
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Re: [DISCUSS] Cassandra ecosystem site
Posted by Henrik Ingo <he...@datastax.com>.
Thanks for sharing, Rahul
Although I knew about Cassandra.link, I somehow had not heard about
Cassandra.tools. I love the current Cassandra.link btw, I think the layout
flows nicely and it feels easier to browse the articles and news compared
to last time I looked.
As for Cassandra.tools, it indeed seems to be very similar to what I put
together. I agree that a static site generator is an option, since
contributors would typically be comfortable with adding content via
submitting PRs with Markdown. Otoh what I feel I'm missing is the nice
grouping into categories that http://35.184.128.58/ has. There I do like
the structure and smooth flow of jamstackthemes.dev.
Do I read you correctly that you are open to collaborate and build upon
cassandra.tools rather than http://35.184.128.58/? To be specific, is it
aligned with your goals for cassandra.tools that it would be a neutral
community site? (I actually don't know if it needs to be under any kind of
formal Cassandra project supervision, but either way should be similar in
spirit to what content can currently go into
https://cassandra.apache.org/_/ecosystem.html.
As a final comment... If we are going back to static site generators, I
guess I should mention for the record that simply evolving the current
https://cassandra.apache.org/_/ecosystem.html is an option too.
henrik
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 6:59 PM Rahul Xavier Singh <
rahul.xavier.singh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Henrik
>
> What a great find! Love the filterability. Our team and I have been
> curating on https://cassandra.tools/
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cassandra.tools/__;!!PbtH5S7Ebw!e2PlRJmfEuZkacYBgAqGI0rJLJeePGh6jCyohtgYzSrBH-TIOesfuqmPrfneRqQ-dJiC5v14Sj-oXRnMlcMBN02GT-1vNg$>
> for a few years on a Markdown based Static Generated Site. Right now it
> uses Gatsby. We had gotten the first UI from a jamstack Headless CMS
> listing a while ago.
>
> All the content is in Markdown files. We deliberately chose this so that
> in the worst case it can be hosted for free on any static hosting site in
> the world including Github Pages.
>
> There's another iteration of where we can find inspiration. This is a
> Hugo generated site.
>
> https://github.com/stackbit/jamstackthemes
> This powers https://jamstackthemes.dev/
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jamstackthemes.dev/__;!!PbtH5S7Ebw!e2PlRJmfEuZkacYBgAqGI0rJLJeePGh6jCyohtgYzSrBH-TIOesfuqmPrfneRqQ-dJiC5v14Sj-oXRnMlcMBN00UagwkUQ$>
>
> All of the content is in markdown here as well
> https://github.com/stackbit/jamstackthemes/blob/master/content/services/formstack/_index.md
>
> This is the story of precaution.. the moment you have to depend on a
> database for any site, it becomes a service that has to be hosted, managed,
> cared for... I strongly recommend a static generator even if you continue
> to use a database.
>
> There's also a source of content from the DB that powers our
> https://cassandra.link
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cassandra.link__;!!PbtH5S7Ebw!e2PlRJmfEuZkacYBgAqGI0rJLJeePGh6jCyohtgYzSrBH-TIOesfuqmPrfneRqQ-dJiC5v14Sj-oXRnMlcMBN00_DcmPDg$>
> which is also generated from Gatsby but is backed by a MySQL based app.
> We've backlogged moving it to be hosted on a Cassandra variant like Astra
> or otherwise, but you know as well as most people, this guy named Free Time
> is hard to get in touch with.
>
>
>
> Rahul Singh
>
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Re: [DISCUSS] Cassandra ecosystem site
Posted by Rahul Xavier Singh <ra...@gmail.com>.
Henrik
What a great find! Love the filterability. Our team and I have been
curating on https://cassandra.tools/ for a few years on a Markdown based
Static Generated Site. Right now it uses Gatsby. We had gotten the first UI
from a jamstack Headless CMS listing a while ago.
All the content is in Markdown files. We deliberately chose this so that in
the worst case it can be hosted for free on any static hosting site in the
world including Github Pages.
There's another iteration of where we can find inspiration. This is a Hugo
generated site.
https://github.com/stackbit/jamstackthemes
This powers https://jamstackthemes.dev/
All of the content is in markdown here as well
https://github.com/stackbit/jamstackthemes/blob/master/content/services/formstack/_index.md
This is the story of precaution.. the moment you have to depend on a
database for any site, it becomes a service that has to be hosted, managed,
cared for... I strongly recommend a static generator even if you continue
to use a database.
There's also a source of content from the DB that powers our
https://cassandra.link which is also generated from Gatsby but is backed by
a MySQL based app. We've backlogged moving it to be hosted on a Cassandra
variant like Astra or otherwise, but you know as well as most people, this
guy named Free Time is hard to get in touch with.
Rahul Singh
Chief Executive Officer | Business Platform Architect m: 202.905.2818 e:
rahul.singh@anant.us li: http://linkedin.com/in/xingh ca:
http://calendly.com/xingh
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