On this episode, we chat with Patrick McFadin. He is a technologist, member of the CNCF, author, and Vice President of Developer Relations at Datastax. We discuss the Cassandra Database, release 4.0, Kubernetes, and technology foundations. Eric and Brandon had way to much fun with this one! Destination Linux Network (https://destinationlinux.network) Sudo Show Website (https://sudo.show) Sponsor: Bitwarden (https://bitwarden.com/dln) Sponsor: Digital Ocean (https://do.co/dln-mongo) Sudo Show Swag (https://sudo.show/swag) Contact Us: DLN Discourse (https://sudo.show/discuss) Email Us! (mailto:contact@sudo.show) Sudo Matrix Room (https://sudo.show/matrix) Apache Cassandra (https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.html) DataStax: What is NoSQL? (https://www.datastax.com/nosql) Apache Cassandra 4.0 is Here (https://cassandra.apache.org/_/blog/Apache-Cassandra-4.0-is-Here.html) DataStax (https://www.datastax.com) Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io) KubeCon 2021 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america) K8ssandra (https://k8ssandra.io) Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:42 Welcome 01:56 Sponsor - Digital Ocean 03:00 Sponsor - Bitwarden 04:31 Meet Patrick McFadin 06:42 Who Is Patrick? 08:14 What Is Cassandra? 13:37 Cassandra 4.0! 17:52 DataStax Mission 26:38 What is the CNCF? 31:22 Data on Kubernetes 41:00 What's Next? 47:08 Wrap Up Special Guest: Patrick McFadin.