We now have channels on the ASF Slack for Reaper and Medusa: #cassandra-reaper and #cassandra-medusa Come join us there: s.apache.org/slack-invite

Benchmarking and stress testing Apache #Cassandra are important exercises that operators and developers do regularly. Knowing what you want to achieve and how to interpret results is a big part of the challenge. Check out our latest blog post… thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/04/0…

Check out our latest blog post by John Sanda taking a deep dive into provisioning an Apache Cassandra cluster using the DataStax Kubernetes operator thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/04/1… #cassandra #apache #kubernetes #k8

Cassandra Medusa 0.7 was released with lots of improvements and bug fixes for restores. Update through pypi or our debian bintray repo. github.com/thelastpickle/…

What benefits with Java 11 and 14 bring to Apache Cassandra 4.0? Check out Alexander Dejanovski amazing deep dive into some JDK and GC benchmarks… thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/06/2…

Dial C* for Operator – making Reaper happen in #Kubernetes with the new Cass Operator v1.3.0. Check it out, our latest blog post by John Sanda thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/08/1… #Cassandra

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…

Introducing the first Cassandra Changelog blog! Our monthly roundup of community activities including: - 4.0 beta updates - New fuzz testing tool - User stories Bigmate Tech At Bloomberg - Tutorials & more cassandra.apache.org/blog/2020/10/2…

Ever wondered how many tables is too many in an Apache Cassandra cluster? Read our latest blog post by Alexander Dejanovski to find out the performance impacts of large data models. thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/11/2…

Check out our latest blog post by Alexander Dejanovski, exploring the performance impacts of creating many columns in Apache Cassandra tables. thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/12/1…

There is just no value to the read repair chance in Apache Cassandra, despite it adding a significant amount of background load to your clusters. Our latest blog post by 💧 mck 🦎🐬 goes through the feature in detail, and how to disable it. 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…

Capturing flamegraphs for Apache #Cassandra in Kubernetes using the cass-operator, nosqlbench and the async-profiler. Our latest blog post by 💧 mck 🦎🐬 thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/01/3…

Reaper 2.2 was just released with a major redesign of its internal segment orchestration. Check out the new features in our latest blog post by Alexander Dejanovski thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/02/2…

Take a peek into how Apache Cassandra sets up its Continuous Integration for its 40K+ tests, with our latest blog post by 💧 mck 🦎🐬 thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/04/2… #Apache #Cassandra #junit #pytest #jenkins

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

The services we all love, from Netflix, Playstation, Spotify, and more, are all powered by Cassandra, the most scalable #database in the world. Build the future of our connected world, build with Apache Cassandra. #opensource #nosql #cloudnative youtube.com/watch?v=gkT_fh…

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

Check out Miles first TLP blog post and learn how to setup certificates for Cassandra in Kubernetes: thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/10/2…

Because Friday is the best day to cut out releases, Reaper 3.0 for Apache Cassandra is out! Prepare your upgrade by reading the release blog post: thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/10/2… Spoiler: we removed support for postgres/h2, but added some great new features!