Mario Tavares

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Why your Cassandra cluster scales poorly

Why your Cassandra cluster scales poorly


Apache Cassandra promises linear scalability and workload distribution, among many other features—and rightly so. ...

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Change Your system_auth Replication Factor in Cassandra

Change Your system_auth Replication Factor in Cassandra


Occasionally, clients reach out to us with authentication issues when a node is down. While this scenario shouldn’t ...

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Replacing Nodes in Cassandra

Replacing Nodes in Cassandra


One of the many things to love about Cassandra is how operationally simple it is to add, remove or even replace nodes ...

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