Distributed Data Show
The Distributed Data Podcast is your weekly source for the latest news and technical expertise to help you succeed in building large-scale distributed systems. Brought to you by the Developer Advocate team, we go in-depth with DataStax engineers and special guests from the broader data community. New episodes each Tuesday.
Episodes
September 1, 2020 • 29 mins
The Distributed Data Show brought you the latest news and technical expertise to help you succeed in building large-scale distributed systems. In the series FINALE (yes finale <3), reminisce past episodes with DataStax's Jeff Carpenter and Sam Ramji as they discuss the original inspiration behind the series and more. And you won’t want to miss out on what's coming next … But first, a big thanks to our listeners, and to a...
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August 18, 2020 • 15 mins
Ben Covi joins the show to discuss dse-pronto, a framework he helped create at Intuit for automating deployment and management of DataStax Enterprise clusters. We learn about the origins and capabilities of dse-pronto, the process of inner-sourcing and open-sourcing the framework, and Ben's invitation to the community to for suggestions and improvements.
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June 30, 2020 • 20 mins
Cedrick Lunven talks with Mark Paluch, Spring Data Lead at Vmware, about the origins of the Spring Framework, how he got involved with Spring Data, and the 3.0 release of the Spring Data Cassandra module, which is based on the DataStax Java Driver 4.x series.
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June 9, 2020 • 35 mins
When will Cassandra 4.0 be ready? DataStax VP of Engineering Josh McKenzie joins Aleks Volochnev to discuss his background as a member of the Project Management Committee for Apache Cassandra and the community collaboration involved in delivering the next major release of our favorite open source database.
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June 2, 2020 • 33 mins
Russ Spitzer returns to the show to discuss the benefits of combining Cassandra and Spark, the new release of the DataStax Spark-Cassandra connector, and why the proprietary features that used to ship with DataStax Enterprise have now been merged into the open-source project. We also check in on the Spark 3.0 Beta and discuss the tradeoffs in various ways you can deploy Spark and Cassandra together.
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May 26, 2020 • 39 mins
As infrastructure engineers, we have plenty to do. Even with all the cool DevOps tooling out there helping us do more with less, we still have situations that demand our attention. Raghavendra Prabhu and Yelp has been working on this problem with their Kubernetes enabled tool, PaaSTA. Yelp is able to assemble stacks quickly to give developers the fast track to being productive. We have a great conversation about the future of Cassa...
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May 19, 2020 • 19 mins
Chris Bradford is a product manager at DataStax who's focus is on Kubernetes (K8s) and how users can utilize Cassandra in this fast moving project. He gives us some deep insights into how we got here and some important details on being successful when deploying Cassandra in your Kubernetes environment. We finish with some predictions on where the next 5-10 years look for cloud native databases.
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Alan Gibson has been working with the rest of the team at Sky UK to join the awesome forces of Apache Cassandra and Kubernetes. Sky took a methodical engineering approach to understanding the problem and how to make Cassandra truly cloud native. From CI/CD and test to running production across multiple clouds, you will find his insights invaluable as you begin your own journey into Cassandra and Kubernetes.
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Join David Jones-Gilardi as he interviews Jonathan "Shooky" Shook from DataStax, and Mick Semb Wever from TheLastPickle as they delve into the new NoSQLBench open source benchmarking tool for Apache Cassandra. If you weren't testing your data models before, now you have no excuse.
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April 28, 2020 • 29 mins
Kathryn Erickson joins the show to double-click on a few of the exciting possibilities she's tracking with the potential for continued improvement in Cassandra performance. Hardware options on the horizon include persistent memory, FPGAs and networked storage). At the operating system level, she's tracking asynchronous IO support in Linux via the io_uring library. Java performance continues to become more predictable with t...
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April 21, 2020 • 29 mins
In this day of stay at home orders and social distancing the advocate team at DataStax had to rethink how to provide quality workshops while completely online. We share the inside story of how we scaled the registration process, the tools we use to deliver the workshops, and some surprising benefits of going fully remote.
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April 14, 2020 • 18 mins
Rahul Singh of Anant talks with Cedrick Lunven about open source communities in the COVID-19 era, and why Cassandra's 4.0 release will be the springboard for an even brighter future.
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April 7, 2020 • 16 mins
Rahul Singh of Anant talks with Cedrick Lunven about his background building a consultancy around Cassandra, why he loves Lucene, and how he got involved in maintaining Awesome Cassandra, an aggregation of the best Cassandra resources.
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March 31, 2020 • 21 mins
In Part 2, we're continuing our discussion with Mike Loukides of O'Reilly Media from last week's episode, we dive into data privacy and how when we know we've crossed the line of violating the anonymity of people's social and physical fingerprints. We also discuss how interoperability and APIs are essential for securing data pipelines from the user all the way down to the database.
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March 24, 2020 • 20 mins
One of the hardest areas in getting AI projects into production is operationalizing data. In this episode, Mike Loukides of O'Reilly Media joins Dr. Denise Gosnell and Jeff Carpenter to discuss how data provenance impacts our ability to get the most out of our data, using COVID-19 as an example.
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March 17, 2020 • 26 mins
Longtime Cassandra community member Erick Ramirez shares how he got started on this journey, why he answers so many questions on the Cassandra Slack channel, email list, and forums at community.datastax.com, and the hardest Cassandra questions he's been asked.
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March 10, 2020 • 17 mins
Continuing the conversation from last week's episode, DataStax Chief Strategy Officer Sam Ramji shares how open source projects can increase the pace of innovation through multiple speed lanes, the moral imperative of using AI to automate database operations, and why the 2020s will be the decade of scale-out data.
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March 3, 2020 • 16 mins
DataStax Chief Strategy Officer Sam Ramji shares about his experience in working with multiple open source communities including the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, how DataStax is changing our posture toward open source, and his thoughts on how we can improve interaction in the broader Cassandra community. We also offer a sneak peek of part two of our conversation which will continue in next week's episode.
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February 25, 2020 • 22 mins
David talks with Heidi Waterhouse about her role as a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, explains how LaunchDarkly helps developers up their feature flag game, and discusses how cleaning up our big data can actually lead to more insights, not less.
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February 19, 2020 • 20 mins
We are joined today by Jesse Anderson who is in pre-press on his book, Data Teams. Jesse has been wringing value out of data for a long time and is ready to share his insights on how you can join the can't-to-can club. We go over some of the important questions you should be asking as you create or improve your data teams. Is your team worth 1 trillion dollars? Let's find out.
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