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Published inMay 2016
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Dipa Dubhashi
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Dipa Dubhashi

Dipa Dubhashi is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and heads product management at Sigmoid. His prior experience includes consulting with ZS Associates besides founding his own start-up. Dipa specializes in envisioning enterprise big data products, developing their roadmaps, and managing their development to solve customer use cases across multiple industries. He advises several leading start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies about architecting and implementing their next-generation big data solutions. Dipa has also developed a course on Apache Spark for a leading online education portal and is a regular speaker at big data meetups and conferences.
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Akhil Das
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Akhil Das

Akhil Das is a senior software developer at Sigmoid primarily focusing on distributed computing, real-time analytics, performance optimization, and application scaling problems using a wide variety of technologies such as Apache Spark and Mesos, among others. He contributes actively to the Apache Spark project and is a regular speaker at big data conferences and meetups, MesosCon 2015 being the most recent one.
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Cassandra on Mesos


This section will introduce Cassandra and explain how to set up Cassandra on Mesos while also discussing the problems commonly encountered during the setup process.

Introduction to Cassandra

Cassandra is an open source, scalable NoSQL database that is fully distributed with no single point of failure and is highly performant for most standard use cases. It is both horizontally as well as vertically scalable. Horizontal scalability or scale-out solution involves adding more nodes with commodity hardware to the existing cluster while vertical scalability or scale-up solution means adding more CPU and memory resources to a node with specialized hardware.

Cassandra was developed by Facebook engineers to address the inbox search use case and was inspired by Google Bigtable, which served as the foundation for its storage model, and Amazon DynamoDB, which was the foundation of its distribution model. It was open sourced in 2008 and became an Apache top-level project in early 2010...

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Dipa Dubhashi

Dipa Dubhashi is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and heads product management at Sigmoid. His prior experience includes consulting with ZS Associates besides founding his own start-up. Dipa specializes in envisioning enterprise big data products, developing their roadmaps, and managing their development to solve customer use cases across multiple industries. He advises several leading start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies about architecting and implementing their next-generation big data solutions. Dipa has also developed a course on Apache Spark for a leading online education portal and is a regular speaker at big data meetups and conferences.
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Akhil Das

Akhil Das is a senior software developer at Sigmoid primarily focusing on distributed computing, real-time analytics, performance optimization, and application scaling problems using a wide variety of technologies such as Apache Spark and Mesos, among others. He contributes actively to the Apache Spark project and is a regular speaker at big data conferences and meetups, MesosCon 2015 being the most recent one.
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