Mastering Apache Cassandra - Softcover

Neeraj, Nishant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782162682 ISBN 13: 9781782162681

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Mastering Apache Cassandra is a practical, hands-on guide with step-by-step instructions. The smooth and easy tutorial approach focuses on showing people how to utilize Cassandra to its full potential. This book is aimed at intermediate Cassandra users. It is best suited for startups where developers have to wear multiple hats: programmer, DevOps, release manager, convincing clients, and handling failures. No prior knowledge of Cassandra is required.

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About the Author

Nishant Neeraj

Nishant Neeraj (http://naishe.in) is a software engineer at the BrightContext corporation. He builds software that can handle massive in-stream data, process it, and store it reliably, efficiently, and most importantly, quickly. He also manages the cloud infrastructure and makes sure that things stay up no matter what hit the data center in the middle of hardware failures and sudden surges of data inflow.

He has six years of experience in building web applications in Java as a backend engineer. He has been using Cassandra in production-ready web applications since Version 0.6 in 2010. His interests lie in building scalable applications for large data sets. He works with Java, MySQL, Cassandra, Twitter Storm, Amazon Web Services, JavaScript, and Linux on a daily basis, and he has recently developed an interest in Machine Learning, Data Analysis, and Data Science in general.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1782162682
• ISBN 13: 9781782162681
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 340