Anubhav’s Cassandra Musing

Fat clients: Are they useful ?

In Cassandra's distributed architecture, every node acts as a coordinator for client queries. The...

Author: Anubhav- Microsoft Date: 05/18/2017

Migrating Cassandra cluster to Azure Premium Storage (at scale!)

Background Office 365 uses Cassandra to learn deeply about its users. Our cluster has 150 TB data...

Author: Anubhav- Microsoft Date: 03/03/2017

Running Cassandra + Spark at Office 365

Here is a link to my talk describing the details at the Cassandra Summit 2016...

Author: Anubhav- Microsoft Date: 10/26/2016

Real world Repairs

Background Maintaining anti-entropy in Cassandra is achieved via the repair operation. This is...

Author: Anubhav- Microsoft Date: 10/24/2016

Data Modeling Guidelines

Think of your access patterns before your design your schema. Unlike traditional SQL technologies,...

Author: Anubhav- Microsoft Date: 10/05/2016

Debugging Multi-Node Cassandra Cluster on Windows

First : Run a single node cluster, and set breakpoints. Download latest version of cassandra from...

Author: Anubhav- Microsoft Date: 08/25/2016

Test your Cassandra Knowledge

Our team is responsible for running multiple Cassandra clusters reliably and flawlessly at scale...

Author: Anubhav- Microsoft Date: 08/22/2016