Author: Pieter Humphrey Data is the lifeblood of every business and the very reason behind naming the industry’s collective efforts as “information technology.” The rate of growth and the need for global deployment of data is skyrocketing. Yet the most powerful data of all is real-time data. So why are…

Author: Sam Ramji We often think that modern computing is divided between code and data. Functionally, this makes sense as we look at any given app. But when we look at a standard microservices architecture, the breadth and depth of the code itself is more than a few files of…

Author: Mary Grygleski Today, even the most basic web and mobile applications consume a lot of data. The key to exchanging and acting on this data is a messaging system backed by an event-driven architecture. An event-driven system enables messaging solutions and processing to be scalable and asynchronous. …

Author: Pieter Humphrey Today’s blockchain implementations are too costly and slow to function as generalized Web3 computing platforms. Successful systems are using real-time, off-chain data to find market fit. Web3 is in a tricky spot today, and not just because of high-profile bad actors casting an overlong shadow on the…

Author: Mahesh Rajamani In this blog, you will learn how to deploy Stargate data API gateway for Apache Cassandra® in a Kubernetes environment using Helm charts, turning Cassandra into an API-accessible cloud service. Stargate Since its inception in 2020, Stargate.io has helped companies like Netflix, Yelp, Netlify, PrepLadder, SHIELD, and more…

Author: Patrick McFadin Temporal’s Samar Abbas believes developers shouldn’t have to even think about losing state. There are just these durable executions that never fail. If you’ve used word processing tools for a long time, you remember the reflexive action of hitting the “save” keyboard shortcut — the fear of…

Author: Saurabh Verma In this blog, you’ll learn how to use the Stargate Document API for Apache Cassandra® and build a simple TimeSeries DB for weather monitoring on top of the DataStax Astra DB. …

Author: Ed Anuff The latest version of Stargate, an open source project that simplifies how developers work with APIs, was released recently. An application isn’t worth much until it’s put into production. For developers, getting to this point quickly means easy access to data they need to build without having…

Author: Patrick McFadin An extraordinary computer science breakthrough called Accord is bringing globally available, general-purpose ACID transactions to the next Apache Cassandra release. Let’s just get the best part out first. ACID transactions are coming to Apache Cassandra. Globally available, general-purpose transactions that work the way Cassandra works. …