Apache Cassandra, a scale-out datastore, is becoming more Kubernetes-native. Sam Ramji is Chief Strategy Officer at DataStax, a company that builds Cassandra-based products. He explains how DataStax has pivoted back towards supporting upstream Cassandra, and how they’re making it easier to manage on Kubernetes. As always, we also cover the news of the week, and we look at what is and is not a dinosaur.
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Chatter of the week

The return of the brontosaurus
We’re going on a bear hunt

News of the week

kpt:

Announcement
Site
Contributors:
Episode 7, with Phillip Wittrock
Episode 11, with Vic Iglesias
Episode 29, with Janet Kuo
Episode 43, with Brian Grant
Possible meanings, thanks to Daniel Roth and Blender Fox
What does it really stand for? Please tweet us at @kubernetespod. Wrong answers only!


Kubernetes 1.18 deep-dives:

Topology Manager
Server-side Apply
Ingress
CSI: Redmond


New GitLab features

Episode 89, with Marin Jankovski


Rancher 2.4

Episode 57, with Darren Shepherd


Sidekick, from Minio
Cortex 1.0
Kubernetes CVE-2019-11254
Kubernetes Kapsule: managed clusters from Scaleway
Build your own Kubernetes controller by Nicolas Fränkel
Kubie, by Simon Bernier St-Pierre
Serving repository move from Google to community control
mkit from Darkbit
oneinfra by Rafael Fernández López
Cost savings with Kubernetes by Henning Jacobs

Episode 38


Planetscale goes multi-cloud

Episode 81, with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane


30 days of free training from Google Cloud
Critical vulnerabilty in HAProxy
Well-being tips from the CNCF

Links from the interview

Chief Strategy Officer
Sam at Microsoft

The West Wing


Apache Cassandra

Based on the Bigtable paper
Created at Facebook in 2008
Paper published in 2009
A top-level Apache project since 2010
Wide columnar data store and NoSQL


CAP theorem - Cassandra is AP, eventually consistent
ACID and BASE
NewSQL
The road to Cassandra 4.0 by Patrick McFadin
DataStax

Riptano

raising money
becoming DataStax and losing the rhino


DataStax Enterprise
Cassandra Operator and Management API

Announcement blog


DataStax Astra


501c3 and 501c6 US organizations
Cloud Foundry Foundation
Cassandra Enhancement Proposals (CEP)
Pluggable storage engines
Instagram’s “Rocksandra” Cassandra fork and Amazon’s Rocksandra fork
Sam Ramji on Twitter