Author: Enrico Olivelli — Jakarta Messaging (previously known as Java Messaging Service) is no longer the only API to handle messaging systems. More and more developers and enterprises are shifting towards new generation streaming platforms like Apache Pulsar™. In this post, we show you how to use Pulsar in a JakartaEE Web Application deployed…

Author: David Dieruf — Apache Pulsar™ provides highly-scalable, open-source event streaming capable of keeping up with even the largest fleet of IoT devices. But traditionally, Pulsar requires some developer effort and time to configure and manage it. With DataStax Astra Streaming, you no longer have to get too deep into tinkering with multiple configurations. …

Author: Alex Leventer This is the third post in our new Astra DB Crypto Blog Series! We’ll introduce you to IPFS gateways and show you how to run your own to store NFT metadata on AWS. Check Part 1 to learn how to load NFTs into Astra DB, and Part…

Author: Stefano Lottini — When scaling machine learning in production, using a feature store can significantly reduce repeat work and standardize feature definitions. This post looks at how to configure DataStax Astra DB as an online feature store with Feast. Upgrade your Feast Online feature store with Cassandra It’s common for high-growth apps and services to use machine learning (ML) to deliver…

By: Patrick McFadin — Kubernetes lets devs get maximum utility from containers and build versatile cloud-native apps, independent of cloud-specific requirements. But does it also allow a full-scale migration? Data centers used to be exactly that — the centers of our data worlds, where all information, files, and records would be kept and controlled. …

Author: Sebastian Estevez — Sending the data in your Apache Cassandra® NoSQL database to downstream systems has never been easier. With DataStax’s Change Data Capture (CDC) and Streaming support for Astra Terraform provider, you can now configure CDC into target systems by simply running “terraform apply”. Read on to see it in action as…

Author: Pieter Humphrey — This is the sixth post in a series that walks you through building a simple, highly available Spring Boot application that can handle millions of data records. In this post, we will set up our database schema and load our data into the app. To understand how to set up…

Author: Jeff Banks — This post introduces a cloud-readiness testing guide for K8ssandra version 0.1 to help you easily discover cloud-specific issues for new versions of K8ssandra. Using decoupled and customized modules, you can mix and match your testing APIs and frameworks for better cloud testing. For this solution we used Terraform, GoLang, Kubernetes…

Author: Patrick McFadin — In this post we look at the coming 4.1 release of Apache Cassandra and how this release will allow new features without making changes to the core code. Apache Cassandra® 4.1 will be released sometime in July, so now’s a good time to look back over the last year and…