About

I'm Sam Lightfoot, a software engineer working on Apache Cassandra at J.P. Morgan in London.

I write about distributed systems, databases, and systems performance. Recent work includes contributing Direct I/O support for Cassandra compaction and speaking at FinTech DevCon on scaling payment systems.

Open Source:

  • Cassandra
  • Reactor Netty
  • Spring (Framework/Data)

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