Apache Cassandra, a scale-out datastore, is becoming more Kubernetes-native. Sam Ramji is Chief Strategy Officer at DataStax, a company that builds Cassandra-based products. He explains how DataStax has pivoted back towards supporting upstream Cassandra, and how they’re making it easier to manage on Kubernetes. As always, we also cover the news of the week, and we look at what is and is not a dinosaur.

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Chatter of the week

News of the week

Links from the interview

Chief Strategy Officer
Sam at Microsoft
- The West Wing
Apache Cassandra
CAP theorem - Cassandra is AP, eventually consistent
ACID and BASE
NewSQL
The road to Cassandra 4.0 by Patrick McFadin
DataStax
- Riptano
  - raising money
  - becoming DataStax and losing the rhino
- DataStax Enterprise
- Cassandra Operator and Management API
  - Announcement blog
- DataStax Astra
501c3 and 501c6 US organizations
Cloud Foundry Foundation
Cassandra Enhancement Proposals (CEP)
Pluggable storage engines
Instagram’s “Rocksandra” Cassandra fork and Amazon’s Rocksandra fork
Sam Ramji on Twitter

Cassandra, with Sam Ramji

Kubernetes Podcast from Google