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Cassandra Summit Recap: Performance Tuning and Cassandra Training

Hello, friends in the Apache Cassandra community!

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the Cassandra Summit in San Jose. Unfortunately, we ran into an issue with my screen refusing to cooperate with the projector, so my slides were pretty distorted and hard to read. While the talk is online, I think it would be better to have a version with the right slides as well as a little more time. I’ve decided to redo the entire talk via a live stream on YouTube. I’m scheduling this for 10am PST on Wednesday, January 17 on my YouTube channel. My original talk was done in 30 minute slot, this will be a full hour, giving plenty of time for Q&A.

Back to Consulting!

Saying “it’s been a while since I wrote anything here” would be an understatement, but I’m back, with a lot to talk about in the upcoming months.

First off - if you’re not aware, I continued writing, but on The Last Pickle blog. There’s quite a few posts there, here are the most interesting ones:

• 14 Things To Do When Setting Up a New Cassandra Cluster
• Apache Cassandra Performance Tuning - Compression with Mixed Workloads
• Garbage Collection Tuning for Apache Cassandra
• Analyzing Cassandra Performance with Flame Graphs
• Cassandra Time Series Data Modeling For Massive Scale

Now the fun part - I’ve spent the last 3 years at Apple, then Netflix, neither of which gave me much time to continue my writing. As of this month, I’m officially no longer at Netflix and have started Rustyrazorblade Consulting!