Cassandra Day LA 2015

Cassandra is a fantastic distributed database, but it pushes a lot of complexity back to the application developer. In this talk I will discuss how to test your applications that use Cassandra, starting at the unit test level through to the black box acceptance tests. Most of the talk will be around a new framework, Stubbed Cassandra (http://www.scassandra.org/), that stubs Cassandra so that all failure scenarios can be deterministically reproduced without having to create a multi-node cluster. Depending on audience interest I may go into the native protocol and my experiences implementing the server side of it to develop Stubbed Cassandra.