Mat Brown - Learning Apache Cassandra - Manage Fault Tolerant and Scalable Real-Time Data

Mat Brown is a professional software engineer in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he has focused on building consumer-facing web and mobile applications for several companies; he currently works at Genius.

Mat is an enthusiastic contributor to the Ruby open source ecosystem. He is the maintainer of Cequel, a Ruby object mapper for Cassandra, and was the original author of Sunspot, a library that seamlessly integrates Solr search into Rails applications.

I would like to thank my wife, Pamela, and my parents for their love and support. I'd also like to thank my friends, especially those who seemed impressed when I told them I was writing a book. My cat, Taco, though not good for much, did keep me company during some writing sessions and thus deserves a mention here as well.

N. Bharadwaj is a software developer at Glassbeam Inc. He has over 12 years of experience in enterprise product development and managing development teams. His experience covers software design and development in the areas of network-data and application-data analysis. He counts Scala and Java among his primary development languages, and PostgreSQL and Cassandra among the databases he is experienced with. Bharadwaj's interests include building high scalability systems, distributed computing, and machine learning. He received his bachelor of engineering degree in electronics and communication systems from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, in 2002 and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in 2012.

Mark Kerzner holds degrees in law, math, and computer science. He has been designing software for many years and has been working on Hadoop-based systems since 2008. He is the president of SHMsoft, a provider of Hadoop applications for various verticals, a cofounder of Elephant Scale, a training and consulting company, as well as the coauthor of the open source book, Hadoop Illuminated . His book HBase Designed Patterns , written together with Sujee Maniyam, was recently published by Packt Publishing.

I would like to acknowledge the help of my colleagues, in particular, Sujee Maniyam, and last but not least, my multitalented family.

Michael Klishin is an experienced software engineer primarily working on data infrastructure. A long-time open source contributor, he maintains over 50 open source projects.

Sanjay Sharma has been building enterprise-grade solutions in the software industry for around 16 years and using Big Data and Cloud technologies over the past 5 or 6 years to solve complex business problems. He has extensive experience with cardinal technologies, including Cassandra, Hadoop, Hive, MongoDB, MPP DW, and Java/J2EE/SOA, which allowed him to pioneer the LinkedIn group Hadoop India.

I would like to thank my employerImpetus and iLabs, especially its R&D department, which invests in cutting-edge technologies and allowed me to become a pioneer in mastering Cassandra and Hadoop-like technologies early on.

Most importantly, I want to acknowledge my wonderful familymy wife and sonwho have always supported and encouraged me in all my endeavors in life.

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