This month, we’re excited to be doing a joint meeting with the Cassandra user group here in Austin!

BEGINNER TALK

Intro to Cassandra (And Connecting With Ruby)

Apache Cassandra is a scalable, highly available non-relational database designed to deal with big data in real time. After being open sourced by Facebook, Cassandra quickly became popular with sites like Twitter and Reddit for its ability to handle large volumes of low latency writes and reads while still tolerating node failures without disruption.

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This month’s meeting is organized by Keith Gaddis of Collective Idea. Thanks for the help Keith! This may be the most epic meeting we’ve had in a long time.

Database Anti-Patterns - Xavier Shay

Things people often do in rails that they probably shouldn’t.

Xavier has been using Rails for many years, and worked with all sorts of databases: from universities, to high traffic websites, to financial exchanges. He is currently running training sessions throughout the US on how to use your database to write rock solid Rails applications.

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