This book absolutely provides tremendous value in terms its usefulness. This book takes away the pain associated with learning and mastering Cassandra. All complexity has been digested by the author and simplified for the reader with very useful and practical information that can be absorbed just by glancing through the pages. Years of author's experience and practical knowledge in Cassandra has been gifted to the reader in this book with great diligence and generosity.
If you are planning to undergo expensive Cassandra training, think again, spending few hours with this book will change your mind, this book has been written with great care to reduce the learning curve.
The aim of this book is multi fold, just to mention a few:
Provide confidence to the reader in Cassandra concepts and architecture
Provide a flexible, practical framework and context customizable for various situations
Provide practical guidance to manage Cassandra platforms of various hues, sizes, shapes
Provide real world examples to reduce guess work
Provide executable query statements and command line statements at every step
Provide practical outcomes to help the reader to gain instance understanding of what to expect
Provide insights into making Cassandra environment robust and scalable
Provide tricks and tips to implement and maintain seamlessly
Provide security and vulnerability mitigation tips and steps
Provide best practices to follow for optimal Cassandra use
There is no doubt - this book makes the reader very productive Cassandra professional in very short span of time. This book essentially bridges the training gap as the industry is moving fast to take full advantage of what Cassandra can offer to fulfill emerging business needs.
This book can be very helpful to Data administrators, Developers, Data modelers/Application Architects, Project Managers and Data Custodians.
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