In this blog, we recap Cassandra Lunch #18, where we had guest speaker, Ryan Quey, discuss and demo a personal project where he uses multiple technologies, including Cassandra and Kafka, to build an a...

In Cassandra Lunch #17, we discuss tombstones in Cassandra. Tombstones are a special kind of write that signifies deleted values, stops them from being returned on reads, and eventually allows them to...

Apache Cassandra is NoSQL database distributed management system which is free and open-source. Cassandra is originally developed at Facebook and it was released as open-source in google code, later a...

IntroductionGrafana Metrictank is a multi-tenant timeseries platform that can be used as a backend or replacement for Graphite. It provides long term storage, high availability, efficient storage, r...

11 minute read I wrote a blog post a few months ago detailing my experience with Cassandra and tokens. This is a follow-up post on the outcome of that issue. Note: In these posts, I’m using toke...

Cassandra Operations And Performance Tuning In this topic, i will  cover the basics of general Apache Cassandra performance tuning: when to do performance tuning, how to avoid and identify p...

This blog post is a writeup of the presentation Bartek Plotka and I gave at PromCon 2019.Cortex is a horizontally scalable, clustered Prometheus implementation aimed at giving users a global view of...

In Apache Cassandra Lunch #46: Apache Spark Jobs in Scala for Cassandra Data Operations, we discuss how we can do Apache Spark jobs in Scala Cassandra data operations. The live recording of Cassandra ...