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10 June, 2020

Welcome to the “Example of the Week” Program

Authors: Rebecca Mills - @rebccamills

Code snippets, examples, and demo applications will help you get things done faster with Apache Cassandra™ Have you ever been in a situation where you were looking to accomplish a…

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10 June, 2020

Run Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes 15x Faster with Arrikto and DataStax

Authors: Christopher Bradford, Chris Pavlou

This is a synopsis of the full joint report between DataStax and Arrikto. For all the performance results and details please see the complete report here Response times for…

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8 June, 2020

Improved Client Request Routing for Apache Cassandra™

Authors: Jorge Bay Gondra

We recently introduced changes in the client drivers that affects how incoming requests are distributed across an Apache Cassandra cluster. The new default load balancing algorithm…

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developers
1 June, 2020

Adding and removing data in Astra tables

Authors:
Better Botz

In the last post, you used the DataStax Astra API to generate data for our Better Botz database. When DataStax Astra was made generally available, GraphQL was added as a feature for…

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28 May, 2020

DataStax Astra + Knowi = Hybrid Deployment with Unified Analytics

Authors: Nick Panahi

We recently announced the GA of Astra, DataStax’s cloud-native database-as-a-service (DBaaS) built on Apache Cassandra™, with cloud applications and deployments in mind. Astra…

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26 May, 2020

Learn Cassandra with DataStax Desktop

Authors: Jake Robb, Jeff Banks

We're on a mission to make it quick and easy for new users to get started with Apache Cassandra™. For example, last week we released DataStax Astra, delivering a no-operations…

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19 May, 2020

Cloud-Native Architecture Puts the Power Back in Developers’ Hands

Authors: DataStax

Interested in more talks like these? Sign up today for Accelerate: A NoSQL Original Series for access to on-demand episodes. In recent years, many large organizations have started…

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15 May, 2020

Monitoring Apache Cassandra™ Made Simple

Authors: Jake Luciani

To learn more about the DataStax open-source project, Metric Collector for Apache Cassandra and to try a demo, visit us on GitHub. Apache Cassandra is a resilient system for users…

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13 May, 2020

Advanced Apache Cassandra Analytics Now Open For All

Authors: Russell Spitzer, Alex Ott

For several years, the most advanced parts of analytics of Apache Cassandra™ have been restricted to only DataStax Enterprise customers. In our continuing commitment to lead with…

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13 May, 2020

Data-driven Enterprises, Now and in the Future

Authors: DataStax

Sign up today for Accelerate: A NoSQL Original Series to get access to Chet's Kapoor's talk. Many of today’s leading enterprises began their digital transformation journeys 10 or…

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12 May, 2020

Astra: The Future of Apache Cassandra is Cloud Native

Authors: Sam Ramji

Cloud-Native Apache Cassandra Along with tens of thousands of developers and operators, and companies ranging from startups to titans like Apple and Netflix, we want to see Apache…

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12 May, 2020

Welcome to DataStax Astra

Authors:

If you learn one thing from this blog post, I hope it’s that Astra is the easiest form of Cassandra that anybody has ever seen.  With a few keystrokes and zero dollars (not even a…

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4 May, 2020

Accelerate: A NoSQL Original Series Premieres May 12

Authors: Erica Lien

Don’t miss out! Sign up for Accelerate: A NoSQL Original Series today. If you’re a NoSQL enthusiast who’s stuck inside, pull up a chair and get your popcorn ready, because we’ve…

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1 May, 2020

The Practitioner's Guide to Graph Data

Authors: Denise Gosnell

Join DataStax product leaders Denise Gosnell and Matthias Broecheler on May 19 at 11 am PT for a deep dive webinar into graph databases and the 5 most common mistakes to avoid. Get…

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29 April, 2020

Accelerate Rewind: ACI Worldwide

Authors: DataStax

*/ Interested in more talks like these? Register today for Accelerate: A NoSQL Original Series. We’d love to see you online! Cybercrime, and more specifically payment fraud, are…

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22 April, 2020

DataStax Certified as an AWS Service Ready Partner for Linux 2

Authors: Cathleen Nelson

Let’s face it. Cloud would not be cloud without Linux and for the most part it has become a standard for highly-available cloud computing environments. This is evident as most cloud…

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developers
21 April, 2020

Get your Definitive Guide for Apache Cassandra 4.0

Authors: Patrick McFadin
Apache Cassandra™

I first met Jeff Carpenter a few years ago by way of Eben Hewitt, the original author of the O’Reilly Media book “Cassandra: The Definitive Guide.” He was passing the torch to Jeff…

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developers
16 April, 2020

Using Glitch and the Astra Data API

Authors: Adam Locke
Better Botz

In the last blog post, we configured an Express backend server on Node.js, and then connected to our Astra database using the DataStax Node.js driver. We retrieved data from our…

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company
16 April, 2020

DataStax Announces Preview Build of Kong with Support for Astra

Authors:
DataStax Astra

We’re excited to announce a preview build of Kong with support for DataStax Astra (beta), bringing a cloud-native database-as-a-service (DBaaS) built on Apache Cassandra™ to every…

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developers
16 April, 2020

Running Kong on Kubernetes with DataStax Astra

Authors: Christopher Bradford
DataStax Astra

Kong is a plugin-based, highly customizable, open-source API gateway. It seamlessly handles policy application and request enrichment across monolith applications, microservices,…

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15 April, 2020

DataStax Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Authors: Chris Splinter

We’re happy to announce that DataStax is a new member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), an organization that builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud-native open-…

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8 April, 2020

Databases Should Be the Most Boring Thing in Your Data Center

Authors: Patrick McFadin

There are a lot of ways to test software, but distributed systems offer a different challenge just in the nature of how they work. It can be deceptively hard to predict how small…

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developers
7 April, 2020

What’s New in DataStax Enterprise 6.8

Authors: Jonathan Lacefield
DataStax Enterprise, DSE Graph, Kubernetes

DataStax has announced the general availability (GA) of DSE 6.8.  This is a pivotal release for DataStax users as it represents the first, production ready version of Cassandra…

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2 April, 2020

Accelerate Rewind: How Instagram Uses Cassandra to Operate on a Global Scale

Authors: DataStax

Interested in more talks like these? Register today for Accelerate: A NoSQL Original Series. We’d love to see you online! When Instagram was introduced all the way back in 2010,…

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