The Apache Cassandra® Corner The Apache Cassandra® Corner

In this episode, I welcome Otavio Santana (author and Java Champion) back to the show! Listen as Otavio and I talk about his two latest books "Mastering the Java Virtual Machine" and "Java Persistence with NoSQL." We discuss a little about Apache Cassandra® with Java, garbage collection, and the perils of writing two books in a single year.

In this first episode after a year-end break, I had a chance to talk with longtime community member Jon Haddad. Jon has a storied career of working on some of the largest Cassandra clusters in the world. Listen in, as we talk about some of the clusters that he's worked on, the lessons learned, and a little about his new gig, RustyRazorblade consulting.

For this episode, I had a great conversation with Jonathan Ellis (DataStax founder and former Apache Cassandra® PMC Chair). Listen in to hear us talk a little about the formation of DataStax, the early days of the Cassandra project, and Jonathan's trials and tribulations while building Vector Search for Cassandra.

We tried something a little different in this episode, as Sarma Pydipally comes on to the show to interview Aaron! Listen in as we discuss a little about Aaron's career path, working with early versions of Apache Cassandra®, and his upcoming talk at the Cassandra Summit (in December) about leveraging Vector Search in E-commerce!

Want to learn more about Apache Cassandra® as an AI datastore? Listen in as I talk with Dr. Charna Parkey, while we discuss her career journey from engineer to data scientist, the evolution of Kaskada, some implications of AI, and AI workloads that benefit from Cassandra.

This week, I sat down with Aaron Morton to talk about his upcoming talk at the Cassandra Summit in December. We also discussed Aaron's work with the Mongoose project, and improving the Cassandra developer experience with a JSON API that includes Vector Search!