Reaper 2.1 for Apache Cassandra with Astra support was released a few days ago. Discover the main features and improvements that shipped in this version in our new blog post by Alexander Dejanovski thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/10/2…

The next #Cassandra Changelog blog is here! Our monthly roundup of community activities including: - 4.0 beta updates (we’re closing in...) - Reaper 2.1 - Apache Spark & Cassandra SSTables - User stories @Netflix Yelp - Tutorials & more cassandra.apache.org/blog/2020/12/0…

Looking for a Cassandra JDBC driver? ING engineers forked my old JDBC wrapper for the Datastax Java Driver and upgraded it to 4.x 🥳: github.com/ing-bank/cassa…

New Year's Eve celebrations are kicking off early with today's release of Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta4 Go get it at cassandra.apache.org/download/ And a big thank you for all the hard work from all our community over this very difficult year!

My first blog post for the year is out. Apache #Cassandra has a feature called Read Repair Chance that we always recommend everyone to disable, and is getting removed in 4.0. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/01/1…

A significantly better out-of-the-box experience for new users on Cassandra 4.0. Check out this serious deep dive by Anthony into the topic of vnodes and choosing the correct num_tokens setting. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/01/2…

While everyone is talking about Facebook, Scott Morrison just abolished the Family Court of Australia because Pauline Hanson asked him to. It’s a disgrace and it will harm vulnerable families, women and children #auspol

Totally agree with Facebook's actions. The new media laws do nothing to help small journalists and media organisations. All they are doing is putting money in the pockets of large media companies already turning a profit.

The changelog for Apache #Cassandra has landed: • 4.0-rc due soon • New release cadence incoming after Cassandra 4.0 GA • #Kubernetes SIG update - K8ssandra hits 1.0 • News, tutorials & user stories - C* in Top 10 for Highest IT Salaries for 2021 CRN cassandra.apache.org/blog/2021/03/0…

My condolences to Sabine's family and friends. RIP Queen of the Nürburgring.

Cassandra is throwing a party! Join us on April 28 to celebrate the forthcoming 4.0 release, meet others from the global community, and lightning talks. Reg link coming soon -- in the meantime, submit a talk by April 9: sessionize.com/cassandra

Apache Cassandra's Continuous Integration Systems With Cassandra 4.0 just around the corner, and the feature freeze on trunk lifted, let’s take a dive into the efforts ongoing with the project’s testing and Continuous Integration systems. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/04/2…

Get going with RedHat’s CodeReady Containers… Our latest blog post by 💧 mck 🦎🐬 thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/06/0…

This is the first instalment in our certificate management series. In this blog by Anthony we explore different ways to deploy certificates to support encryption in Cassandra and how to rotate them without downtime. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/06/1… #ssl #security #encryption

Medusa v0.11 for Apache Cassandra was just released. Check the changelog: github.com/thelastpickle/…

Apache Cassandra 4.0 is here! The most stable database release in history, already running in production in some of the world’s largest environments. Read Apache - The ASF press release: bit.ly/3zMlypj #nosql #databases #opensource #apache

Come to #Cassandra Day Australia/New Zealand on 17 September for a full day of content for both beginners and seasoned veterans. Registration: eventbrite.com/e/cassandra-da… Call for papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/1hlrLp…

Excited to be talking tomorrow. Dial in to this year's Community Over Code to hear about CI efforts in the Apache Cassandra project.

We just released Reaper 3.0 with adaptive repairs/schedules, new incremental repair triggers and more. Check out the release blog post (watch out for the supported storage changes) and since it's Friday, maybe wait until Monday before upgrading 😅

Struggling with certificates management with Cassandra and Kubernetes (like everyone else)? Check out Miles's first TLP blog post and learn learn how to do this easily, and actually understand what you're doing thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/10/2…