Tag Archives: Cassandra
1000 node Cassandra cluster on Amazon’s EKS
Apache Cassandra is a distributed database that does a great job with geo-distributed workloads. K8ssandra, on the other hand, makes it possible to run it on Kubernetes, equipped with backups…
Designing Stateful Apps for the Cloud and Kubernetes
Almost all applications have some kind of stateful part. How do we navigate a cloud-based world of containers where stateless and functions-as-a-service are all the rage? As a long-time architect,…
Developing a Multi-cluster Operator with the K8ssandra Operator
Cassandra is a highly scalable database with an architecture that makes it well suited for multi-region workloads. A Kubernetes cluster often spans across multiple zones within a single region. However,…
Deploying Cassandra to Multiple Kubernetes Clusters
Over the last few months, the K8ssandra team has been talking about building a new operator for K8ssandra. The first release of that work has officially arrived! We’re not at…
Macquarie Bank’s Journey to Running Databases on Kubernetes
Macquarie Bank migrated stateful workloads including databases to the cloud using Kubernetes. The talk goes over how they progressively matured automation while also going from self-managed Kubernetes on AWS to…