Katacoda scenarios now available on O’Reilly Learning site — It’s been almost 4 months since the release of Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd edition. The response to the book has been great and I’m really grateful to my employer, DataStax, for sponsoring the book and making a digital copy available for free. I’m writing to share about a new…

My toolset for Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Ed — Last night I completed the first draft of the final chapter of the 3rd edition of Cassandra: The Definitive Guide for O’Reilly (early access chapters available at the link). That might explain where all my writing energy has been invested lately :). Now that I get a short pause…

Porting a Java microservice to use an Apache Cassandra DB as a Service — In case you haven’t heard, DataStax has announced a free Beta for our Apache Cassandra as a Service offering, known as Apollo. Apollo is the first service to be released on our cloud platform known as Constellation. I wanted to share a few of my first impressions and tips…

Continuing upgrades on KillrVideo Python — In a previous series I wrapped up a couple of months ago, I shared how I had created a microservice implementation in Python for the KillrVideo application, a reference application my team built to demonstrate best practices for developing with Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. The response to this series…

Part 9 — concluding a series on the KillrVideo Python implementation — In this series I’ve been sharing how I built my first Python application with Apache Cassandra — a Python implementation of the KillrVideo microservice tier. As I reached the end of the project, I was able to share at the recent DataStax Accelerate conference some lessons learned. …

Part 8 of a series on the KillrVideo Python implementation — Over the past couple of months I’ve been blogging about building a Python application with Apache Cassandra — specifically a Python implementation of the KillrVideo microservice tier — and we’re getting close to the end! In the first few posts I shared about why I started this project, how I…

Part 7 of a series on the KillrVideo Python implementation — This is the latest installment of a series about building a Python application with Apache Cassandra — specifically a Python implementation of the KillrVideo microservice tier. In the first few posts I shared about why I started this project, how I incorporated GRPC and Etcd, and the testing approach. …

Pt. 6 of a series on the KillrVideo Python project — This is the latest installment of a series about building a Python application with Apache Cassandra — specifically a Python implementation of the KillrVideo microservice tier. …

Pt. 5 of a series on the KillrVideo Python project — Over the first few posts of this series, I’ve been sharing about my experience building a Python implementation of the KillrVideo microservice tier. …