Cassandra Training and Consultancy From The Experts!

Delivered by Cassandra engineers: Acunu’s engineers work on Apache Cassandra, in addition to working on Acunu’s Next-Generation Distribution of Cassandra. They have knowledge throughout the storage stack, not just limited to Cassandra.

Training material that follows releases: We regularly update all our training material, so you can learn about latest features such as CQL, distributed counters, and more.

On-site, hands-on training and live demos: Get hands-on experience and live demos. Learn how to avoid those time-wasting common mistakes and gotchas.

Expert tips, including data modeling and performance advice: Get expert advice and tips on how to deploy and data-model Cassandra for your application. 

Free training material, including reference cards and Cassandra cheat sheets! Get free reference cards and Cassandra cheat sheets, such as the popular CQL reference card.

A typical training session 

 

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We offer training sessions onsite or offsite, fully customized to your needs and experience. The morning session is focused on developers whilst the afternoon session is focussed on operations. Many organizations find it beneficial to have everyone attend. 

Morning

  • Cassandra introduction and installation (EC2)
  • Application design: data modeling, CQL, Cassandra APIs, denormalisation, examples and use cases
  • Distribution model: eventual consistency, consistent hashing, replication, consistency levels

Afternoon

  • Internals: data structures, SSTables, memtables
  • Performance tuning and monitoring: garbage collection, compaction, JMX metrics 
  • Operations and troubleshooting: failure recovery mechanisms, bootstrapping and decommissioning nodes

 

For more information and pricing, email us your needs at training@acunu.com or call us.