<B> <I>Practical Cassandra</I> </B> is the first hands-on developer’s guide to building systems that deliver on Cassandra’s promises of extraordinary speed, scalability, reliability, and performance. Two pioneering Cassandra developers – including Russell Bradberry, primary author of Cassandra’s NodeJS driver – walk you through every step of building a real production application. <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Drawing on their exceptional expertise, they share deep insights into issues ranging from querying to deployment, management, maintenance, and monitoring. Bradberry and DataStax MVP Eric Lubow cover key issues ranging from architecture to migration, and guide you through navigating crucial decisions you need to make about data modeling. You’ll find full chapters on troubleshooting Cassandra applications and anticipating enterprise issues, as well as a full chapter of Cassandra use cases.</P>