Andrew is a software engineer with Gnip in Boulder, Colorado. He has helped the high powered engineering team at Gnip do real-time filtering and provide historical access to the entire twitter corpus for a little over a year now. Andrew was part of the team that first began stress testing cassandra with the large amounts of data that they see and experienced first hand the fact that it is not always rainbows and unicorns when it comes to shinny new technologies like Cassandra.