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BransonGitomeh / gist:212346cc53800b5b2aa462d15f84f502
Last active December 20, 2016 10:20

so i have always watched netflix database backend talks and they talk about cassandra and how awesome it is. Lots of other companies have sang the DSE song and i have wanted to try it. so installing cassadra on the client is a breeze and fun. The i tried to do the same on the server, so naturally i selected the best free Paas things we have out there. so i can get a server that doesnt go out after 30mins(pun heroku) and also one that allows me to store data not flush my space after every restart (trol heroku). So after a LONG time trying to get this to run LOL (a few tried over a month) i finally got this to work well.

so we need cassandra to get running, then make something to talk to it via any of the official drivers DSE provides. for this case ill use the famous node js...

at the time of writing this the latest version are

node - 6.x
cassandra - 3.6
node-cassandra driver - 3.0
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BransonGitomeh / async.mini.js
Last active August 18, 2016 22:42
var async = {
parallel: function(funcs, complete) {
console.log("parallel")
var counter = 0
var callback = function(argument) {
counter = counter + 1
if (counter == funcs.length) {
setTimeout(complete, 0);
}
}
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BransonGitomeh / pyramid.py
Created September 11, 2016 19:25
pyramid framework stuff. with endpoints that return json .trying to connect to a db
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import os
import logging
import json
from pyramid.config import Configurator
from pyramid.events import NewRequest
from pyramid.events import subscriber
from pyramid.events import ApplicationCreated
from pyramid.exceptions import NotFound
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BransonGitomeh / mithril fill page render on the server
Last active September 23, 2016 09:38
var m = require('mithril');
module.exports = {
controller:function (argument) {
console.log("called the controller")
// fetch the db
return {
name:"awesomness"
}
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BransonGitomeh / mithril fill page render on the server OUTPUT
Created September 23, 2016 09:42
<html><link href="../../plugins/pace/pace.min.css" rel="stylesheet"><script src="./src/pace.js" type="text/javascript"></script><meta charset="utf-8"><meta content="IE=edge" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"><title>AdminLTE 2 | Starter</title><meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" name="viewport"><link href="bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"><link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"><link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ionicons/2.0.1/css/ionicons.min.css" rel="stylesheet"><link href="dist/css/AdminLTE.min.css" rel="stylesheet"><meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" name="viewport"><link href="../../bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"><link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"><link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ionicons/2.
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BransonGitomeh / dev-environment-ubuntu.sh
Last active November 5, 2016 11:15
installs latest cassandra , java8 , latest node
# run chmod +x ./setup-droplet.sh to make the file executable
#install java8 and latest stable cassandra then install latest node
#kill the started cassandra process
#open the cassandra.yaml file and replace *localhost* with the server's ip address
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer && sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default && echo "deb http://debian.datastax.com/community stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.sources.list && curl -L http://debian.datastax.com/debian/repo_key | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cassandra && curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash - && sudo apt-get install -y nodejs && ps -ef | grep cassandra | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill && ex -s +%s/localhost/192.241.151.182/ge -cwq /etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml && ex -s +%s/12.0.0.17/192.241.151.182/ge -cwq /etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
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BransonGitomeh / Sabek.Graph.md
Last active December 11, 2016 20:44

Sabek.Graph Api

The Graph API demonstrated will provide you with all the data that is also available via the admin console at sabek.co.ke

The following code snippet illustrates how to use sabek's graph api in your application, to login to your account and get an authorisation token and log in and request for your data

const async = require("async")
const request = require('request');
var token;
const assert = require("assert")
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BransonGitomeh / API_DOcumentation.md
Last active December 13, 2016 06:59

Testing connection

To test the api and see if you are doing the right thing,

{
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BransonGitomeh / corrector.js
Created September 8, 2017 20:12
const test = { Item:[ { Name: 'Amount', Value: 5 },{ Name: 'MpesaReceiptNumber', Value: 'LI85581A6Z' },{ Name: 'Balance' }, {Name: 'TransactionDate', Value: '20170908181744' }, { Name: 'PhoneNumber', Value: '254723587767' } ] }
const corrected = {}
test.Item.map(node=>corrected[node.Name] = node.Value)
console.log(corrected)
// { Amount: 5,
// MpesaReceiptNumber: 'LI85581A6Z',
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BransonGitomeh / master.js
Last active September 24, 2017 10:01
host multiple express apps on single route
import morgan from 'morgan';
import bodyParser from 'body-parser';
import express from 'express';
import debug from 'debug';
import {
ifError
} from 'assert';
// apps exported from their directories
import chichi from '../chichi/main'