Jeffrey Carpenter

It seems we’ve crossed the line from people talking about deploying Cassandra on top of Kubernetes in production to actually doing it. Patrick McFadin (<a href="https://twitter.com/patrickmcfadin?lang=en">@PatrickMcFadin</a>) interviewed several of these early adopters in <a href="https://www.datastax.com/accelerate/why-tomorrows-cassandra-deployments-will-be-on-kubernetes">this fascinating episode</a> from the Accelerate online series.

There was so much goodness we released the original conversations on the Distributed Data Show (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4AGVf2NOLNunlurLalQGnE">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/datastaxdevelopers">SoundCloud</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2g2h-wyI4SrpqV0IlckCKnDFsSxSyjxm">YouTube</a>):&nbsp;

<ul>
	<li>How does Sky UK stay grounded with Cassandra and Kubernetes | Episode 148 with Alan Gibson, Principal Software Engineer @ Sky UK.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>What you need to know to deploy Cassandra in Kubernetes | Episode 149 with Christopher Bradford, Product Manager @ DataStax</li>
	<li>Is self-driving data infrastructure our future? | Episode 150 with Raghavendra Prabhu, Sr. Software Engineer @ Yelp</li>
</ul>

Speaking of a common Cassandra Kubernetes operator, there’s already a Special Interest Group (SIG) hard at work! Check out the draft specification on <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/2020-05-07+Cassandra+Kubernetes+Operator+SIG">Apache Cassandra Wiki site</a>.&nbsp;

<h4>Community Highlights From cassandra.link</h4>

Our friends at Anant highlighted a few interesting posts that showed up on <a href="https://cassandra.link/">cassandra.link</a> recently:

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://thelastpickle.com/blog/2018/05/08/cassandra-4.0-datacentre-security-improvements.html">Cassandra 4.0 Datacenter Security Enhancements</a> - Anthony Grasso’s article describes how enterprises can better segment and secure data workloads.</li>
	<li><a href="https://cassandra.link/post/how-to-deploy-a-cassandra-cluster-ring-on-kubernetes-openebs">How to Deploy a Cassandra Cluster/Ring on Kubernetes + OpenEBS</a> - With Cassandra + OpenEBS, avoid vendor lock-in with truly cloud-native storage on any Kubernetes distribution or vendor. <a href="https://cassandra.link/post/persistent-storage-with-openebs-on-kubernetes">Another testimony</a>.</li>
	<li><a href="https://www.sestevez.com/sestevez/CassandraDataModeler/">CQL Data Modeler</a> - Sebestian Estevez’s open-source tool for visualizing and creating Cassandra Stress tests is one of the best open secrets for folks new to Cassandra.</li>
</ul>

<h4>Notable Software Releases</h4>

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/cassandra/4.0-alpha4/">Cassandra 4.0 Alpha 4</a> - cqlsh now works on Python 3! There’s a rapidly shrinking number of Jira issues to close before we can cut a Beta release.</li>
	<li><a href="http://astra.datastax.com">DataStax Astra</a> - ur Cassandra-as-a-service is GA. Don’t miss the free tier! Read <a href="https://www.datastax.com/blog/2020/05/why-astra-good-cassandra">what Sam Ramji had to say</a> about why we open-sourced some of the internals.</li>
	<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/lists.datastax.com/forum/#!topic/java-driver-user/jub63zTzOBY">DataStax Java Driver v4.6</a> - this includes improvements for C* 4.0 compatibility and a new offset paging feature</li>
	<li><a href="https://spring.io/blog/2020/05/15/spring-boot-2-3-0-available-now">Spring Boot 2.3.0</a> and <a href="https://spring.io/blog/2020/05/12/spring-data-neumann-goes-ga">Spring Data Neumann</a> - These releases feature an upgrade to the latest Cassandra Java driver version 4.x as well as support for C* 4.0 functionality.</li>
</ul>

<h4>Upcoming Events&nbsp;</h4>

We’re continuing our popular <a href="https://www.datastax.com/company/events/cassandra-developer-workshop">Cassandra Developer Workshop</a> series:

<ul>
	<li>6/2/2020 - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decouvrez-la-puissance-dapache-cassandratm-avec-cet-atelier-en-ligne-tickets-103508396400">Cassandra Developer Workshop (France)</a></li>
	<li>6/3/2020 - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/developer-workshop-nosql-performance-benchmarking-made-easy-tickets-106745187730">Developer Workshop: NoSQL performance benchmarking made easy!</a></li>
	<li>6/10/2020 - Kafka Connector (Registration coming soon)</li>
	<li>6/11/2020 - DataStax Kubernetes Operator (Asia)</li>
	<li>6/17/2020 - APIs and Spring</li>
</ul>

<h4>Burning Questions</h4>

Here are some discussions we’ve been following:

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4d119fb6f1380565cb389a53d9bb5468e9f817dad0fa0745ec19b571%40%3Cuser.cassandra.apache.org%3E">This thread</a> on the Cassandra mailing list on setting the JVMs MaxDirectMemory on your Cassandra nodes - Jeff Jirsa’s response is especially useful.</li>
	<li>A user recently asked on <a href="https://community.datastax.com">community.datastax.com</a> about using a virtual IP in place of contact points. <a href="https://community.datastax.com/questions/4390/">Check out why VIPs and load-balancers aren’t necessary</a>.</li>
</ul>

What else is on your mind? Topics we should explore? Projects we should highlight? We’d love your feedback: <a href="mailto:developer@datastax.com">developer@datastax.com</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/datastaxdevs?lang=en">@DataStaxDevs</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Developer Newsletter: Why Tomorrow's Cassandra Deployments Will Be on Kubernetes

Jeffrey CarpenterSoftware Engineer - Stargate

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