The C/C++ Driver is officially part of the project thanks to the donation from DataStax & IBM

Now found at github.com/apache/cassa...

Reach out if you'd like to be involved in next steps post-donation: new docs location & first release; great ways to get involved & become part of our dev community

Jon Haddad's first post in his Cassandra series on maximising cost efficiency
rustyrazorblade.com/post/2025/03...

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

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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u93I...

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
cassandraossmeetup.splashthat.com

We are very glad to announce that Jyothsna Konisa has accepted our invitation to become a committer !

Jyothsna has been contributing to C* for >3 years now, contributed the mTLS feature (CEP-34) & is making progress on CEP-44 (Kafka integration for CDC using Sidecar), as well as other contributions

We are very glad to announce that Saranya Krishnakumar has become a subproject committer !

Saranya has been actively contributing to the sidecar subproject, and across the project with many different people.

Saranya Krishnakumar and Francisco Guerrero presenting

The Road Ahead: Next steps for Cassandra Sidecar post v0.1

www.communityovercode.org – Minneapolis

Andres Beck-Ruiz and William Nguyen presenting

Performance Improvements & Upgrade Challenges: Bloomberg’s Road to Apache Cassandra 5.0

www.communityovercode.org– Minneapolis

Join us at Community over Code's Cassandra Track, Fri Sept 12th for

Auto Repair in Apache Cassandra
Jaydeepkumar Chovatia (Uber) and Andrew Tolbert (Apple), both Cassandra Committers.

www.communityovercode.org– Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, September 11-14

Cassandra users, you'll going to love this !

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra Sidecar 0.1.0

Downloads
dlcdn.apache.org/cassandra/cassandra-sidecar/0.1.0/
repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/cassandra/

Changelog
github.com/apache/cassa...

More on Sidecar in its CEP
cwiki.apache.org/confluence/p...

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