This is a crash course introduction to Cassandra. You'll step away understanding how it's possible to to utilize this distributed database to achieve high availability across multiple data centers, scale out as your needs grow, and not be woken up at 3am just because a server failed. We'll cover the basics of data modeling with CQL, and understand how that data is stored on disk. We'll wrap things up by setting up Cassandra locally, so bring your laptops.
Apache Cassandra has proven to be one of the best solutions for storing and retrieving time series data at high velocity and high volume. This talk will give you an overview of the many ways you can be successful by introducing Apache Cassandra concepts. We will discuss how the storage model of Cassandra is well suited for this pattern and go over examples of how best to build data models. There will also be examples of how you can use Apache Spark along with Apache Cassandra to create a real time data analytics platform. It’s so easy, you will be shocked and ready to try it yourself.
In 2014, with the launch of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Activision released a system for messaging its users with highly personalized and contextually relevant communications designed to enhance the user experience and deepen user engagement. The key to success relied on Activision’s ability to assemble and react to massive amounts of data, enabled by a data center built around Apache Cassandra.
Microsoft Azure will discuss the evolution of enterprises moving to the public cloud. The requirements enterprises need in order to leverage the cloud infrastructure effectively. The Azure and DataStax solution provides a robust platform for companies to quickly deploy Mobile, Web and IoT applications in the cloud as well as hybrid environments which is ideal for enterprises seeking to leverage Azure and DataStax to quickly innovate and scale elements of their applications to meet customer demands.
We will share customer use-cases with attendees and discover how the combined solution can revolutionize the way your business can interact with your customers via multiple digital channels, enabling you to become an Internet Enterprise.
This sessions covers diagnosing and solving common problems encountered in production, using performance profiling tools. We’ll also give a crash course to basic JVM garbage collection tuning. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of what they should look for when they encounter problems with their in-production Cassandra cluster. This talk is intended for people with a general understanding of Cassandra, but it not required to have experience running it in production.
Cassandra has proven itself to be a rock solid platform for numerous applications at Hulu. It offers the availability and scalability we need that few other databases can match. In this presentation, we will share techniques for operating cassandra at scale as well as some of the good stories and experiences we have accumulated along the way.
