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Cockroach Labs, the creators of CockroachDB are coming to London for the first time since their 1.0 GA Release. In this interview we pose a few questions to them.

CockroachDB, a new contender in the NewSQL space has recently released their first production-ready version. We took this opportunity to take a closer look.

In my recent post I explored some use-cases for Spark and Cassandra. This article describes how to deploy Spark together with an Apache Cassandra cluster

Learn from our experience in dealing with Spark, in our three part blog series and webinar that explores how to address common data processing challenges.

Automated security acceptance tests for UI applications. Using OSWAP ZAP client API, Selenium and Cucumber Java.

Distributed data technologies are great, but have many challenges. This is an introduction to using Cassandra and Spark together as a powerful data platform

One of the stated intentions behind the design of Java 8's Streams API was to take better advantage of the multi-core processing power of modern computers. Operations that could be performed on a single, linear stream of values could also be run in parallel by splitting that stream into multiple sub-streams, and combining the results from processing each sub-stream as they became available.

This blog gives some examples to illustrate the problem that Reactor Core solves, shows how Reactor Core can help, and discusses how it works internally.

Tombstones are among the most misunderstood features of Cassandra. We look at common problems with Cassandra tombstones and share practical advice.