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