The Last Pickle Ltd

Because Friday is the best day to cut out releases, Reaper 3.0 for Apache Cassandra is out! Prepare your upgrade by reading the release blog post: thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/10/2… Spoiler: we removed support for postgres/h2, but added some great new features!

Check out @MilesGarnsey first TLP blog post and learn how to setup certificates for Cassandra in Kubernetes: thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/10/2…

The services we all love, from Netflix, Playstation, Spotify, and more, are all powered by Cassandra, the most scalable #database in the world. Build the future of our connected world, build with Apache Cassandra. #opensource #nosql #cloudnative youtube.com/watch?v=gkT_fh…

This is the first instalment in our certificate management series. In this blog by @ossarga we explore different ways to deploy certificates to support encryption in Cassandra and how to rotate them without downtime. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/06/1… #ssl #security #encryption

Get going with RedHat’s CodeReady Containers… Our latest blog post by @mck_sw thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/06/0…

Take a peek into how Apache Cassandra sets up its Continuous Integration for its 40K+ tests, with our latest blog post by @mck_sw thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/04/2… #Apache #Cassandra #junit #pytest #jenkins

Reaper 2.2 was just released with a major redesign of its internal segment orchestration. Check out the new features in our latest blog post by @alexanderDeja thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/02/2…

Capturing flamegraphs for Apache #Cassandra in Kubernetes using the cass-operator, nosqlbench and the async-profiler. Our latest blog post by @mck_sw thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/01/3…

A significantly better out-of-the-box experience for new users on Cassandra 4.0. Check out this serious deep dive by @ossarga into the topic of vnodes and choosing the correct num_tokens setting. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/01/2…

There is just no value to the read repair chance in Apache Cassandra, despite it adding a significant amount of background load to your clusters. Our latest blog post by @mck_sw goes through the feature in detail, and how to disable it. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/01/1…

Check out our latest blog post by @alexanderDeja, exploring the performance impacts of creating many columns in Apache Cassandra tables. thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/12/1…

Ever wondered how many tables is too many in an Apache Cassandra cluster? Read our latest blog post by @alexanderDeja to find out the performance impacts of large data models. thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/11/2…

Introducing the first Cassandra Changelog blog! Our monthly roundup of community activities including: - 4.0 beta updates - New fuzz testing tool - User stories @BigmateTech @TechAtBloomberg - Tutorials & more cassandra.apache.org/blog/2020/10/2…

Reaper 2.1 for Apache Cassandra with Astra support was released a few days ago. Discover the main features and improvements that shipped in this version in our new blog post by @alexanderDeja thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/10/2…

Dial C* for Operator – making Reaper happen in #Kubernetes with the new Cass Operator v1.3.0. Check it out, our latest blog post by @johnsanda thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/08/1… #Cassandra

What benefits with Java 11 and 14 bring to Apache Cassandra 4.0? Check out @alexanderDeja amazing deep dive into some JDK and GC benchmarks… thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/06/2…

Cassandra Medusa 0.7 was released with lots of improvements and bug fixes for restores. Update through pypi or our debian bintray repo. #070-20200703-0804-0000" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/thelastpickle/…

Check out our latest blog post by @johnsanda taking a deep dive into provisioning an Apache Cassandra cluster using the DataStax Kubernetes operator thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/04/1… #cassandra #apache #kubernetes #k8

Benchmarking and stress testing Apache #Cassandra are important exercises that operators and developers do regularly. Knowing what you want to achieve and how to interpret results is a big part of the challenge. Check out our latest blog post… thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/04/0…

We now have channels on the ASF Slack for Reaper and Medusa: #cassandra-reaper and #cassandra-medusa Come join us there: s.apache.org/slack-invite