Hey Everyone,

In this episode I invited Patrick McFadin who is an expert in the world of Cassandra and Data Modelling.

Patrick currently works for DataStax as a VP Of Dev Rel. Patrick has given several techtalks on Cassandra and the ecosystem around it. We have covered the architecture of Cassandra in depth.

Heres what we have covered:

00:00 Introduction

04:00 History of Cassandra

07:18 Patrick Apache Cassandra?

14:30 How writes work in Cassandra?

21:30 How many copies are written on a single write?

25:44 How does replication work?

32:00 How do reads work? (Read consistency levels)

39:00 Why is Allow Filtering not recommended?

43:00 Data Modelling in Cassandra

50:45 Modeling a Chat Application

01:05:00 How does CAP theorem fits Cassandra?

01:07:06 New features in Cassandra?

References:

Patrick McFadin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-m...

Kaivalya Apte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaivalya-...

Astra: astra.datastax.com

Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index....

Webinar on Data Modeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D39w...

Playlist on Distributed Systems and Databases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

I hope you enjoyed our discussion and learned from it. Please like, share and subscribe to the channel and keep supporting.

Cheers, The GeekNarrator