{"id":506,"date":"2010-03-20T20:19:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2010\/03\/looking-at-cassandra\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T20:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T19:19:34","slug":"looking-at-cassandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2010\/03\/looking-at-cassandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Cassandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='imgright'><img alt='' src='http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/cstrep\/blog\/cassandra-logo.png' \/><\/span>When I start to get interested in a project, I usually join the project users mailing list and read it for a couple of months, to get a general feeling of what&#39;s going on, what problems do people have, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I became very interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/cassandra.apache.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cassandra<\/a>, <b>&quot;A highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store&quot;<\/b>.<br \/>\nSo, almost 2 months ago, I joined the <code>cassandra-users<\/code> mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that Cassandra is in production at huge sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Digg<\/a>. Which doesn&#39;t really tell you much if you don&#39;t know how they use it, and what they use it for. However, guess what? There&#39;s a lot of information out there.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s a few links I&#39;d like to share about Cassandra:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.apache.org\/cassandra\/ArticlesAndPresentations\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/wiki.apache.org\/cassandra\/ArticlesAndPresentations<\/a>, from the Cassandra wiki, a dense page filled with introductory articles and case studies about the sites I mentioned.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parleys.com\/#sl=1&amp;st=5&amp;id=1866\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.parleys.com\/#sl=1&amp;st=5&amp;id=1866<\/a>, video on Cassandra from last February <a href=\"http:\/\/fosdem.org\/2010\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">FOSDEM<\/a>. I was there, but I couldn&#39;t see this talk. Too many people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/about.digg.com\/node\/564\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/about.digg.com\/node\/564<\/a>, another article by Digg about the NoSQL &quot;movement&quot; in general.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/about.digg.com\/blog\/looking-future-cassandra\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/about.digg.com\/blog\/looking-future-cassandra<\/a>, an article by a Digg engineer about possible use cases about Cassandra. Note that Digg is using it already, currently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I start to get interested in a project, I usually join the project users mailing list and read it for a couple of months, to get a general feeling of what&#39;s going on, what problems do people have, etc&#8230; I became very interested in Cassandra, &quot;A highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store&quot;. 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