Jeffrey Carpenter

This issue comes to you from the DataStax Developer Advocate team.

Last week we wrapped up our 8 week Cassandra Developer Workshop series with a special bonus episode to honor the winners of the Astrackathon - our hackathon for developing applications on <a href="https://astra.datastax.com/register">Datastax Astra</a>. David Jones-Gilardi (<a href="https://twitter.com/sonicdmg">@sonicdmg</a>) captured the sentiments of the team: “I was curious to see what we were going to get, and I had a ton of fun going through all the projects everyone submitted.” Here’s what we had to say about the winners:

<ul>
	<li>Our first place winner was Marat Gubaidullin for his <a href="https://github.com/mgubaidullin/infinity">Infinity</a> project. Bettina Swinnerton said: “I was absolutely blown away by the quality, it has a lot of diagrams on how the app is composed, it has very clear instructions, every step worked, it was Dockerized... It’s a time series that’s aggregated into a forecasting application, with a great UI and nice layout.”</li>
	<li>Second place went to Kevin Gorczowski - As Aleks Volochnev (<a href="https://twitter.com/hadesarchitect">@hadesarchitect</a>) shared, Kevin’s submission is “a great Java project regarding radioscopy research in the medical field, the code is very clean and easy to understand... very well Dockerized / containerized, and in general very good overall view, it looks nice.”&nbsp;</li>
	<li>In third place we have Ayan Chakraborty for his <a href="https://github.com/public-repo-ayan/astrakathon-2020-asset-management">Asset Management application</a>. According to Cedrick Lunven (<a href="https://twitter.com/clunven">@clunven</a>), this is “a Maven project, well structured, using the long term support JDK 11… there is a lot of documentation for us to deep dive, good package structure, a good data model using bucketing where needed, and some curl commands for testing... It’s really a good sample for anyone wanting to do a project on Astra or Cassandra.!”</li>
</ul>

If you missed out on the Astrackathon, don’t worry, this won’t be your only opportunity to show your Cassandra skills - we’re partnering with Hacker Earth and Major League Hacking to do more hackathons in the near future. As Patrick McFadin (<a href="https://twitter.com/patrickmcfadin">@patrickmcfadin</a>) shared, “When you do something like this - put it on LinkedIn because that’s where you get noticed. We will amplify it and make sure you are well known as a total rockstar.”

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Astrackathon and to those who completed the <a href="https://www.datastax.com/cassandra-workshop-series">workshop series</a>. In case you missed the awards ceremony and our Ask Me Anything session, you can check out the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lomNqO-DGJc&amp;list=PL2g2h-wyI4SpspPamyuinj9sgxjTFn9ex">recap video</a> on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/datastaxdevs">DataStax Devs YouTube</a> channel.

We were listening to all your feedback and are working hard to make future workshops even better. So what’s next? Read more below…

<h4>Upcoming Events&nbsp;</h4>

<ul>
	<li>For our fall developer workshops, we are going back to basics and targeting developers who are either new to or haven’t used Cassandra.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>This week’s Introduction to Cassandra (<a href="https://youtu.be/pVLN6FsUeyo">video replay</a>) was a hands-on workshop on the basics of building applications with Apache Cassandra using <a href="http://astra.datastax.com/register?utm_source=devnews&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=devnews">DataStax Astra</a>. If you missed it and are interested, don’t worry, we’ll be running this workshop again soon.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Upcoming workshops will also cover Spring Boot and Building Microservices for Apache Cassandra. Follow us on <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/datastax-23222864038">Eventbrite</a> &amp; subscribe on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/datastaxdevs">YouTube</a> to get notified.</li>
</ul>

<h4>Example of the Week</h4>

<ul>
	<li>This week’s example is <a href="https://github.com/DataStax-Examples/all_astra_apis">Demonstrate All Astra APIs</a> - contributed by <a href="https://github.com/qzg">@qzg</a></li>
	<li>This example demonstrates how data in DataStax Astra DbaaS can be accessed using four different APIs (so far): GraphQL API, REST API, Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API and Mapper API</li>
	<li>Walk through this example with Kiyu Gabriel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8JQZvO-n9A&amp;feature=youtu.be">YouTube Video</a></li>
	<li>Become a contributor! Try this example, add your own flair, and submit a PR. Or submit your own example through the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfroX8PJ42u-XdlZR3WZfeFLGEQjirnQyTvp9oqokX_X4DTmQ/viewform">DataStax Examples Submission Form</a> or <a href="mailto:example@datastax.com">example@datastax.com</a></li>
</ul>

<h4>Community Highlights from <a href="https://cassandra.link/">Cassandra.Link</a></h4>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://cassandra.link/post/new-blog-series-cassandra-what-you-may-learn-the-hard-way-opencredo">Blog Series: Cassandra - What you may Learn the Hard Way</a> - An older series but still very relevant to most new people who are learning Cassandra today.&nbsp;</li>
	<li><a href="https://cassandra.link/post/intuit-dse-pronto">dse-pronto</a> - Intuit’s automation Datastax in AWS on Packer, Terraform, and Ansible and works with Jenkins, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, Bamboo, Gitlab, Spinnaker.</li>
	<li><a href="https://cassandra.link/post/polynote-or-the-polyglot-scala-notebook">Polynote | The polyglot Scala notebook</a> - Polynote has a rich language aware editor, D3/Vega based visualizations, supports Python, Scala, and Apache Spark (by <a href="https://netflix.github.io/">Netflix OSS</a>).</li>
	<li><a href="https://cassandra.link/post/wix-quix">Quix</a> - New entrant into the data notebook world works with Presto, Athena, BigQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL and any database that supports JDBC including Cassandra (by <a href="https://www.wix.engineering/">Wix Engineering</a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

<h4>New Podcast Coming Soon</h4>

We’re shaking things up and introducing a new technical podcast, and saying goodbye to the <a href="https://www.datastax.com/resources/distributed-data-show">Distributed Data Show</a>. If you haven’t already, take a listen to this week’s series finale. Reminisce with Jeff Carpenter (<a href="https://twitter.com/jscarp">@jscarp</a>) and Sam Ramji (<a href="https://twitter.com/sramji?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@sramji</a>) as they discuss the original inspiration for the show, reminisce about great episodes, plus closing thoughts from Patrick McFadin and David Jones-Gilardi. Also, a big thanks to our audience and all who have contributed over the last three years. We’ll share more about the Open || Source || Data podcast as we launch on September 15.

Have a question or comment? 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;

Developer Newsletter: Astra Hackathon Results and Upcoming Workshops

Jeffrey CarpenterSoftware Engineer - Stargate

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