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Editor’s note: This story originally ran on July 27, 2021, the day that Apache Cassandra 4.0 was released. Today is a big day for those of us in the Apache Cassandra community. After a long uphill climb, Apache Cassandra 4.0 has finally shipped. …

Learn how to get started today developing a CI/CD workflow using Apache Cassandra with a GitHub Actions runner!

Apache Pulsar is an open source streaming platform that addresses important limitations in Kafka, particularly for cloud-native applications.

If you’re a current Cassandra user, upgrading to the latest releases can be fairly simple and requires no downtime.

The dreaded part of every site reliability engineer’s (SRE) job eventually: capacity planning. You know, the dance between all the stakeholders when deploying your applications. Did engineering really simulate the right load and do we understand how the application scales? …

Cassandra and K8s are seen as the “most logical pairing”, let’s take a look at how they are a dream team — and why this isn’t always true.   

For people that work in infrastructure and application development, the pace of change is quick. Finish one project and it’s on to the next. Each iteration requires an evaluation asking if the right technology is being used and if it …

“Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial consequences and impacts customer trust.”  This was the first line …