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Cassandra Lightning Talks by Joaquin Casares and Johnny Miller

🚀 Ready to supercharge your Cassandra workflow and slash your operational costs?

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Cassandra Lightning Talks by Joaquin Casares and Johnny Miller
🚀 Ready to supercharge your Cassandra workflow and slash your operational costs? In this fast-paced session from Community Over Code 2025, Joaquin Casares and Johnny Miller of Axonops deliver a…
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November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Friendly reminder
NoSQL ≠ anti-SQL

NoSQL (2009, Johan Oskarsson & Eric Evans) is about architecture & needs, not the query syntax

It's about scale-out design, multiple writers, no single primary, & predictable growth as you add nodes

New APIs don’t define NoSQL; the distributed system design does
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Choose open source– better performance, better stability, more features, no surprises.

Thanks for the write up Sean Murphy
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Migrating from ScyllaDB to Apache Cassandra: Rediscovering Performance, Openness, and Long-Term Value | Digitalis Blog
ScyllaDB’s shift to a source-available license with a 10TB data cap is causing many large-scale data teams to reconsider their NoSQL database choices. Apache Cassandra 5.0 now stands out as the…
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November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Did you know Apache Cassandra was the top-most mentioned Apache technology at the ASF's Community Over Code conference this year 🫡

Thanks for the write Paul Brebner
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November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Road Ahead: Next steps for Sidecar post v0.1 by Saranya Krishnakumar and Francisco Guerrero

Struggling with the operational complexity of Apache Cassandra? Tired of building and maintaining bespoke scripts and internal tools just to manage your clusters? 🤔

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The Road Ahead Next steps for Cassandra Sidecar post v0 1 by Saranya Krishnakumar and Francisco Guer
Struggling with the operational complexity of Apache Cassandra? Tired of building and maintaining bespoke scripts and internal tools just to manage your clusters? 🤔 Enter Cassandra Sidecar: the…
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November 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
If you are in Minneapolis Nov 12th ‼️
MSP Cassandra User Group MeetUp 5-8pm

Food, drinks & some great talks…
1. Future of C* based GenAI with IBM Watsonx
2. Cassandra @ Netflix – Chris Lohfink
3. ACID Transactions with C* – Aaron Ploetz

👉🏼 Register luma.com/apfa9bdt
MSP Cassandra User Group - November · Luma
Tentative Agenda 5:00 - 5:45: Food / Networking 5:45 - 6:15: Future of Apache Cassandra® based GenAI with IBM watsonx 6:15 – 7:00: Cassandra @ Netflix (title…
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November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Cassandra Constraints by Bernardo Botella Corbi

Ever worried about a 4GB DVD rip being pushed into a single database column, wreaking havoc on your CDC pipeline? 📀💥

The new constraints framework gives you powerful, granular control over your data at the schema level
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Apache Cassandra Constraints by Bernardo Botella Corbi
Ever worried about a 4GB DVD rip being pushed into a single database column, wreaking havoc on your CDC pipeline? 📀💥 Apache Cassandra's new constraints framework is the elegant solution you've been…
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November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Mastering Storage Attached Indexes

Struggling with slow queries on massive Cassandra partitions? Tired of creating complex, denormalized tables just to support your application's filtering needs? transform your data modeling with Storage Attached Indexes (SAI). 🚀

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Mastering Storage Attached Indexes Transforming Cassandra Data Modeling by Caleb Rackliffe
Are you struggling with slow queries on massive Cassandra partitions? Tired of creating complex, denormalized tables just to support your application's filtering needs? It's time to transform your…
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November 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Performance Improvements & Upgrade Challenges: Bloomberg’s Road to Apache Cassandra 5 0

Are you considering the leap to Apache Cassandra 5.0? Get a real-world perspective from the team at Bloomberg, who manage a staggering 5 petabytes of data across 5,500 nodes!

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Performance Improvements & Upgrade Challenges: Bloomberg’s Road to Apache Cassandra 5 0 by Andres Be
Are you considering the leap to Apache Cassandra 5.0? Get a real-world perspective from the team at Bloomberg, who manage a staggering 5 petabytes of data across 5,500 nodes! Join William Nguyen and…
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October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Cassandra backups made easy with Medusa and Kubernetes by Aaron Ploetz

In this practical and honest talk from the Community Over Code 2025 conference, Cassandra committer and industry veteran Aaron Ploetz tackles this challenge head-on.

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Cassandra backups made easy with Medusa and Kubernetes by Aaron Ploetz
Let's be honest: backing up Apache Cassandra can be a real pain. So much so that many of us, even seasoned pros, have made excuses to avoid it. "It's eventually consistent anyway," or "it's not our…
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October 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
If you're in Seattle Nov 11th !
C* OSS MeetUp 5:15-8:00PM

Pizza & some great talks…
1. [Apple] Streaming C*: Native CDC w/ Kafka
2. [Netflix] Behind the Scenes: Empowering Live Events w/ C*
3. [AWS] AWS Commitment to OSS
4. [Uber] First-Class Support for C* MVs
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October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Analytics 1.0 Unlocking Real Time Insights at Scale by Doug Rohrer

Ever struggled to push data into Apache Cassandra faster than the native write path allows? Discover the secrets behind the Apache Cassandra Analytics library…

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Apache Cassandra Analytics 1 0 Unlocking Real Time Insights at Scale by Doug Rohrer
Ever struggled to push data into Apache Cassandra faster than the native write path allows? Discover the secrets behind the Apache Cassandra Analytics library, a powerful tool designed to solve this…
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October 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Analytics 1.0 Unlocking Real Time Insights at Scale by Doug Rohrer

Ever struggled to push data into Apache Cassandra faster than the native write path allows? Discover the secrets behind the Apache Cassandra Analytics library…

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Apache Cassandra Analytics 1 0 Unlocking Real Time Insights at Scale by Doug Rohrer
Ever struggled to push data into Apache Cassandra faster than the native write path allows? Discover the secrets behind the Apache Cassandra Analytics library, a powerful tool designed to solve this…
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October 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
How CQL runs on Accord by Ariel Weisberg

Ever wondered how Apache Cassandra is evolving to support strictly serializable, multi-key transactions? Dive deep into the engine room with Accord, the new consensus protocol set to revolutionize how CQL operates. 🚀

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How CQL runs on Accord by Ariel Weisberg
Ever wondered how Apache Cassandra is evolving to support strictly serializable, multi-key transactions? Dive deep into the engine room with Accord, the new consensus protocol set to revolutionize…
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October 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra GoCQL Driver version 2.0.0

Downloads
downloads.apache.org/cassandra/cassandra-gocql-driver/2.0.0

You can add the driver to your project with the "v2.0.0" tag:
```
go get github.com/apache/cassandra-gocql-driver/v2@v2.0.0
```

Changelog
October 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Witness Replicas Reducing Storage Costs by Scott Andreas

💸 Are you spending too much on storage for your Apache Cassandra cluster? What if you could slash your costs by up to a third while simultaneously boosting performance and preserving fault tolerance?

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Witness Replicas Reducing Storage Costs in Apache Cassandra by Scott Andreas
💸 Are you spending too much on storage for your Apache Cassandra cluster? What if you could slash your costs by up to a third while simultaneously boosting performance and preserving fault…
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October 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Join us at the next Planet Cassandra online meetup Wed, Nov 19

for a presentation of cqlai and the AxonOps Workbench showing how it can help you write, test, and manage CQL more efficiently.

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Improving Cassandra Development: Unlocking Productivity with CQLAI and AxonOps, Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 10:00 AM | Meetup
Join us for an engaging session with Johnny Miller and Hayato Shimizu as they showcase how new tools are streamlining the Cassandra development experience. Discover how cql
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October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Vote passes to include CEP-38 🥳
CQL Management API

This work will replace JMX operational functionality and tooling with a CQL interface.

More info: cwiki.apache.org/confluence/d...
October 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Living with Accord by Ariel Weisberg

Ready to unlock the power of strictly serializable multi-key transactions in Apache Cassandra with just one WAN round trip? 🚀

The Accord consensus protocol is the future but migrating a live, production cluster can seem daunting

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October 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Dive into Accord, Cassandra's groundbreaking protocol for multi-partition ACID transactions! 🚀 Here Alex Petrov bridges the gap between academic paper & practical realities, offering the "missing guide" developers & operators need to master this powerful new feature

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Accord Transactions Missing Guide for Developers and Operators Alex Petrov
Dive deep into Accord, Cassandra's groundbreaking protocol for multi-partition ACID transactions! 🚀 In this session from Community Over Code 2025, Alex Petrov bridges the gap between the academic…
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October 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Ever wonder what it takes to power your Netflix binge-watch, from signing in to searching for a new show? Behind the scenes, a massive Apache Cassandra deployment is handling over 30 million requests…

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Ensuring Cassandra Operational Excellence at Netflix by Cheng Wang and Joshua Lopes
Ever wonder what it takes to power your Netflix binge-watch, from signing in to searching for a new show? Behind the scenes, a massive Apache Cassandra deployment is handling over 30 million requests…
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October 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Ready to bridge the gap between the world's most powerful NoSQL database and the king of container orchestration? In this hands-on session: Running Apache Cassandra in Kubernetes hands on with K8ssandra Alexander Dejanovski and Michael Burman

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Running Apache Cassandra in Kubernetes hands on with K8ssandra Alexander Dejanovski and Michael Bu
Ready to bridge the gap between the world's most powerful NoSQL database and the king of container orchestration? In this hands-on session from Community Over Code 2025, Alexander Dejanovski and…
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September 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM