Apache Cassandra learning resources for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users - this has been posted to my little blog @ http://soryy.com

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Talks (video)

• The Data Model is Dead, Long Live the Data Model - Patrick McFadin
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• Become a Super Modeler - Patrick McFadin
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• The World's Next Top Data Model - Patrick McFadin
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Talks (slides)

• C* Summit 2013: Eventual Consistency != Hopeful Consistency by Christos Kalantzis
• C* Summit 2013: Real World, Real Time Data Modeling by Tim Moreton
• Cassandra Data Modeling Best Practices — DataStax Cassandra South Bay Meetup May 2013
• Advanced Data Modeling and Bitmap Indexes
• Apache Cassandra and Go
• How NOT to use Cassandra
• Running Cassandra in AWS
• Cassandra Metrics

Papers

• Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System
• Efficient Reconciliation and Flow Control for Anti-Entropy Protocols

Misc. Stuff

• A Quick Tour of Internal Authentication and Authorization Security in DataStax Enterprise and Apache Cassandra
• Cassandra: tuning the JVM for read heavy workloads
• Using Gossip Protocols for Failure Detection, Monitoring, Messaging and Other Good Things