The Distributed Data Show brought you the latest news and technical expertise to help you succeed in building large-scale distributed systems. In the series FINALE (yes finale <3), reminisce past episodes with DataStax's Jeff Carpenter and Sam Ramji as they discuss the original inspiration behind the series and more. And you won’t want to miss out on what's coming next … But first, a big thanks to our listeners, and to all who contributed!

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Ben Covi joins the show to discuss dse-pronto, a framework he helped create at Intuit for automating deployment and management of DataStax Enterprise clusters. We learn about the origins and capabilities of dse-pronto, the process of inner-sourcing and open-sourcing the framework, and Ben's invitation to the community to for suggestions and improvements.

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Cedrick Lunven talks with Mark Paluch, Spring Data Lead at Vmware, about the origins of the Spring Framework, how he got involved with Spring Data, and the 3.0 release of the Spring Data Cassandra module, which is based on the DataStax Java Driver 4.x...

When will Cassandra 4.0 be ready? DataStax VP of Engineering Josh McKenzie joins Aleks Volochnev to discuss his background as a member of the Project Management Committee for Apache Cassandra and the community collaboration involved in delivering the...

Russ Spitzer returns to the show to discuss the benefits of combining Cassandra and Spark, the new release of the DataStax Spark-Cassandra connector, and why the proprietary features that used to ship with DataStax Enterprise have now been merged into...

As infrastructure engineers, we have plenty to do. Even with all the cool DevOps tooling out there helping us do more with less, we still have situations that demand our attention. Raghavendra Prabhu and Yelp has been working on this problem with...

Chris Bradford is a product manager at DataStax who's focus is on Kubernetes (K8s) and how users can utilize Cassandra in this fast moving project. He gives us some deep insights into how we got here and some important details on being successful when...

Alan Gibson has been working with the rest of the team at Sky UK to join the awesome forces of Apache Cassandra and Kubernetes. Sky took a methodical engineering approach to understanding the problem and how to make Cassandra truly cloud native. From...

Join David Jones-Gilardi as he interviews Jonathan "Shooky" Shook from DataStax, and Mick Semb Wever from TheLastPickle as they delve into the new NoSQLBench open source benchmarking tool for Apache Cassandra. If you weren't testing your data models...

Kathryn Erickson joins the show to double-click on a few of the exciting possibilities she's tracking with the potential for continued improvement in Cassandra performance. Hardware options on the horizon include persistent memory, FPGAs and networked...