Bret Piatt talks about Cassandra at the O'Reilly Velocity Conference

Filed in by Angela Bartels | June 30, 2010 8:57 am

Bret Piatt[1] held a session on Cassandra[2] at the O’Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference[3] last week. He was interviewed by Matt Slocum while there and addresses the following questions:

How does Cassandra differ from traditional relational databases?
What types of sites and services work best with Cassandra?
Is there a tipping point for a site or service moving to Cassandra?
Why are open standards so important for cloud computing[4]?
Will we get to the point where businesses will rely on cloud resources instead of building out their own infrastructure?

Click below to see the full interview:

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Endnotes:

Bret Piatt: http://twitter.com/bpiatt
Cassandra: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2009/09/23/the-cassandra-project/
O’Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference: http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2010
cloud computing: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/what_is_cloud_computing/
[Image]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1YJs74rRM

Source URL: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/bret-piatt-talks-about-cassandra-at-the-oreilly-velocity-conference/