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By Eric Anderson

Apache Cassandra with Patrick McFadin

Published June 02, 2021 4:00am

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin) delve into the history of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database born and bred around cloud over a decade ago. Patrick is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, and a member of the Cassandra Project Management Committee. On today’s episode, Patrick shares his philosophy on developer advocacy and experience in open-source.

In this episode we discuss: Behind the NoSQL explosion that made Cassandra the darling of the valley Comparing different eras of commercializing open-source, then and now How Patrick became a pioneer in evangelizing and community-building The tw...