Strange Loop

Apache Cassandra Anti Patterns

Matthew Dennis

DataStax

Matt was the first employee at DataStax (previously Riptano) and currently focuses on high level architecture, design, data models, deployment and algorithms for some of the largest, highest volume and most fault tolerant distributed systems in the world. Prior to DataStax, Matt held various technical leadership and principal development roles at Crossroads Systems and Troux Technologies and even spent time as a System Administrator in a former life. Matt studied Computer Science as an undergraduate and Software Engineering as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin in the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Engineering respectively.