Pratheep AnanthanMay 4 · 6 min readPhoto by Samson Creative. on UnsplashThis post explains about deploying a 3-node Cassandra cluster in your laptop by simply using a ‘vagrant up’ command.Usually, dev...

Installs and configures a cassandra cluster Requirements See meta/main.yml Role Variables See defaults/main.yml Dependencies See meta/main.yml Example Inventory [cassandra-cluster] host[1-n].test Ex...

ansible-cassandra Ansible role to install an Apache Cassandra cluster supervised by systemd. Includes the following: Some OS tuning options such as installing jemalloc, setting max_map_count and tcp_k...

Recently, I got a rush request to get a three-node Apache Cassandra cluster with a replication factor of two working for a development job. I had little idea what that meant but needed to figure it ou...

If you’re a frequent reader of our blog, you may have noticed we’ve been spending a lot of time looking at performance tuning. We’ve looked at tuning Compression, Garbage Collection, and how you can ...

Running Cassandra in Kubernetes presents some interesting challenges. Performance is almost always an important consideration with Cassandra, no less so when running in Kubernetes. In this post, I dem...

TTL stands for ‘Time to Live’ . It’s a common functionality provided by many of new age DBs.Modern DBs are designed for speed and scale and much of them have some constrained to achieve that, almost a...

TL;DR: This is a tutorial extracted from part of a presentation I gave at Cassandra Summit 2015 titled Hardening Cassandra for Compliance (or Paranoia). The slides are available and the “SSL Certifica...