Author: Chet Kapoor — Astra Streaming is GA! The open data stack that just works is here. Yesterday was an exciting day at DataStax. We announced that Astra Streaming, our high-scale messaging and event streaming service, is generally available. With new built-in support for Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and JMS, it’s a powerful service that…

By Jonathan Ellis — Event streaming applications need open-source and microservices-based data stacks. Here’s why Apache Pulsar is the superior choice for microservice architectures and for easily scaling out applications around data. Everyone wants results faster. We want applications that know what we want, even before we know ourselves. We want systems that constantly…

Author: Pieter Humphrey — This is the fourth 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 an Astra DB instance and connect it to our Spring Boot application using Spring Data for…

By: Mick Semb Wever — In this post, we’ll break down the steps to help you run your database on OpenShift, using CodeReady Containers. You’ll learn how to deploy the Cass-operator and use the Cassandra cluster. Let’s take an introductory rundown of setting up your database on OpenShift, using your own hardware and RedHat’s CodeReady…

Author: Mark Stone — Transitioning your existing data applications to a different backend is no small task.This post gives a high-level overview of CQL proxy and how it helps you connect your Apache Cassandra applications with Astra DB with little to no configuration modifications. Many IT organizations are adopting a fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS)…

Author: Pieter Humphrey — Want to learn how to build a quick and simple Spring Boot application that is highly available, easily scalable, and can handle millions and millions of data records? In part three of this blog series, we learn how to create an Apache Cassandra® data model that ensures speed and reliability…

Author: Sam Ramji — How do we create free and open data sets that are trustworthy? Open source cloud services and Kubernetes can help. We talked to Microsoft Azure’s Principal Program Manager, Lachlan Evenson, on standards for accessing data in cloud-native environments and best practices for using Kubernetes on the cloud. Accessing the data…

Author: Melissa Herrera — Cadence and Astra DB are a winning pair for developers looking to visualize their workflows while having a robust, easily-scalable database running in the background. Read on to learn how to connect Cadence to Astra DB in just 5 simple steps. Cadence is a multi-tenant orchestration framework that helps with…

Author: Thomas Been — The NoSQL database, Apache Cassandra®, is known for its infinite scalability, fault-tolerance, and 100% uptime. But deploying apps on Cassandra used to be challenging, until DataStax Astra DB came along. This post explains how Astra DB lets you deploy Cassandra-based apps on AWS in minutes, not weeks or months. Launching…