Robbie Strickland

Cassandra High Availability Robbie Strickland 2 Revised edition

If you are a developer or DevOps engineer who understands the basics of Cassandra and are ready to take your knowledge to the next level, then this book is for you. Perhaps you've just got your hands dirty working on a small application, but now you have a use case that demands greater scale and zero downtime. An understanding of the essentials of Cassandra is needed, including knowing how to install and configure Cassandra, create tables, and read and write data.  
This book starts with the fundamentals, helping you to understand how the architecture of Apache Cassandra allows it to achieve 100% uptime when other systems struggle to do so. You'll get a solid understanding of data distribution, replication, and Cassandra's highly tunable consistency model. This is followed by an in-depth look at its robust support for multiple data centers, and how to scale out your cluster. Next, the book moves into the realm of application design, with chapters discussing the native driver and data modeling. Lastly, you'll find out how to steer clear of common anti-patterns and take advantage of Cassandra's ability to fail gracefully.