C.Y. Kan - Cassandra Data Modeling and Analysis

C.Y. Kan is an expert in system integration and has over 20 years of IT experience, which includes 15 years of project management and an architect role in many large-scale international projects. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Hong Kong and later a Master's degree from the University of Technology, Sydney. He holds many professional qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, CISSP, TOGAF9, and is a Certified SOA Architect.

Mr. Kan is an Assistant Vice President now working for PCCW Solutions Limited, Hong Kong. He has expertise and interests in software technologies and development methodologies, which includes Enterprise architecture, Service-oriented architecture, Java-related technologies, traditional and NoSQL database technologies, Cloud computing, Big Data, mobile application development, agile software development, and various kinds of project management methodologies.

Mr. Kan is often invited by Project Management Institute Hong Kong Chapter to teach courses on cloud computing, Big Data, service-oriented architecture, business process management, and agile software development. He is also the author of a video e-learning course, Cassandra Administration , Packt Publishing , which was published last year.

I would like to thank my family, Cally and Kobe, for all that they have done for me.

Christopher Bailey is a senior technical researcher at the University of Bristol. He has always been interested in technology and computing from an early age and followed his passion throughout undergraduate and postgraduate levels and obtained a PhD from the University of Southampton. Subsequently, he was drawn more to the application of academic theory in practice. He now works with academics and researchers to bring the latest advances in software engineering to play within an academic setting.

Throughout his career, Christopher has been developing tools and applications for a diverse range of projects, such as undergraduate e-learning platforms, pedagogical tools for lecturers, video repositories for humanities, enterprise-level application integrations, and location-aware crowdsourcing apps. More recently, he has been one of the lead developers on the national online survey tool BOS (https://www.onlinesurveys.ac.uk), which uses at its core, the performance throughput of Cassandra to help store and manage the large number of responses generated by the service.

Christopher lives in Bristol with his wife, and when he is not reviewing books, he can be found tinkering with his 3D printer, planning his next holiday, or immersed in his (unending) pursuit to learn Chinese.

Swathi Kurunji is a PhD student in the Computer Science department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell), USA. She has shown keen interest in database systems. Her PhD research involves Query optimization, Big Data Analysis, Data Warehouses, and cloud computing. She has shown excellence in her field of study through research publications in international conferences and journals. She has also received awards and scholarships at UMass Lowell for research and academics.

Swathi has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from UMass Lowell and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science from KVGCE, India. During her studies at UMass Lowell, she has worked as a teaching assistant, where she helped professors in teaching classes and labs, designing projects, and grading exams.

Swathi has worked as a software development intern with IT companies such as EMC and SAP. At EMC, she gained experience on Apache Cassandra data modeling and performance analysis. At SAP, she gained experience on infrastructure/cluster management components of the Sybase-IQ product. She has worked with Wipro Technologies in India as a project engineer managing application servers.

She has a wide experience with database systems such as Apache Cassandra, Sybase-IQ, Oracle, MySQL, and MSAccess. Her interests include Software Design and Development, Big Data analysis, optimization of databases, and Cloud computing. Her Linkedin profile is https://www.linkedin.com/pub/swathi-kurunji/49/578/30a/.

I would like to thank my hubby and my family for all the support.

Robert E. McFrazier is an open source developer, manager, trainer, and architect. Having started with web development, he was able to progress in his career in multiple roles as a developer, trainer, build/release engineer, architect, and manager. He has been working primarily in PHP web development, but he also has experience in Java development, AWS cloud, message queues, Hadoop, Cassandra, and creating high volume SOAP/REST API services.

He has previously reviewed Learning Cassandra for Administrators , Packt Publishing .

Robert has worked for many software companies, including Nordstrom.com, InfoSpace, Clear, RealNetworks, Arise Virtual Solutions, T-Mobile, and Disney.

Iuliia Proskurnia is a PhD candidate at EDIC doctoral school at EPFL with specialization in distributed information systems. Currently, she is working on the Specific Domain Knowledge Base Construction. She was awarded a fellowship by the EPFL to conduct her doctoral research. She is a winner of the Google Anita Borg scholarship and Google Ambassador at KTH (2012-2013). She obtained a Master's diploma in Distributed computing (2013) from KTH (Stockholm, Sweden), UPC (Barcelona, Spain). During her master thesis, she designed and implemented a unique, real-time, low latency reliable, and strongly consistent distributed data store for stock exchange environment at NASDAQ OMX. Previously, she has obtained Master's and Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science with honors from National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI". Her master thesis was about fuzzy portfolio management in a priory uncertain condition. This period was productive for her in terms of publications and conference presentations. During her studies in Ukraine, she was awarded named scholarships several times.