Tag - scalability

How to grow your project without failing at architecture, scalability and system integration

Today I would like to talk about problems of project growth. Suppose you’re doing the right things as we did. We ate lots of pizzas, had lots of fun and worked very hard. And the first project architecture design was made on a napkin during a lunch break. But even if you’re doing all of the above, there is no guarantee to reach the goals of the project. The project can still ruin under the weight of circumstances. This article is about things that may help to avoid that. It also focuses on project scalability and system integration issues.

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How You Can Use Cassandra in the Big Data World

In simple terms, the goal of typical big data systems is to get some business benefit of information. Commonly, we need to collect the data, save it in a certain location, perform some analysis (up to data mining), and visualize results.

Though every business case is unique and there is still no silver bullet, some frameworks, tools and platforms are widely used as big data system building blocks. You may have heard frequently used words like Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, HBase and others.

This article covers the main features of Cassandra DB with respect to usage as an element of big data system infrastructure and our experience.

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