Technical Insights

Building easy-cass-mcp: An MCP Server for Cassandra Operations

I’ve started working on a new project that I’d like to share, easy-cass-mcp, an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server specifically designed to assist Apache Cassandra operators.

After …

easy-cass-stress Joins the Apache Cassandra Project

I’m taking a quick break from my series on Cassandra node density to share some news with the Cassandra community: easy-cass-stress has officially been donated to the Apache Software Foundation …

Compaction Strategies, Performance, and Their Impact on Cassandra Node Density

This is the third post in my series on optimizing Apache Cassandra for maximum cost efficiency through increased node density. In the first post, I examined how streaming operations impact node …

Cassandra Compaction Throughput Performance Explained

This is the second post in my series on improving node density and lowering costs with Apache Cassandra. In the previous post, I examined how streaming performance impacts node density and operational …

How Cassandra Streaming, Performance, Node Density, and Cost are All related

This is the first post of several I have planned on optimizing Apache Cassandra for maximum cost efficiency. I’ve spent over a decade working with Cassandra and have spent tens of thousands of …

Cassandra 5 Released! What's New and How to Try it

Apache Cassandra 5.0 has officially landed! This highly anticipated release brings a range of new features and performance improvements to one of the most popular NoSQL databases in the world. Having …

easy-cass-lab v5 released

I’ve got some fun news to start the week off for users of easy-cass-lab: I’ve just released version 5. There are a number of nice improvements and bug fixes in here that should make it …

Fixing cqlsh Python version error on MacOS

If you’re encountering Python errors when starting cqlsh on a macOS system, this post is for you.

easy-cass-lab updated with Cassandra 5.0 RC-1 Support

I’m excited to announce that the latest version of easy-cass-lab now supports Cassandra 5.0 RC-1, which was just made available last week! This update marks a significant milestone, providing …