Things i've learned today:
1) Cassandra is an amazingly fast single key hash lookup system. That's it. Really. If you have lots of data that can be organized by a single unique key, it's terrific! If you don't, yeah, you want to keep looking around for other solutions.
2) While CPAN can be your friend, sometimes, it's not really. Say, like, when you install a library that tells you to look at the test.pl for documentation, then, when you hunt down a copy (pro tip: look in your ~/.cpan directory first) you may well discover that there's actually no documentation, the calling method there vastly differs from how you'll be using it, and it relies on a pre-release version of the library you're trying to talk to.
3) Regardless of how complex you think a problem is, always go for the simplest possible solution.
4) Stupid things make me feel stabby.
