This one day workshop is targeted to both developers and admins that want to get hands on Cassandra and feel confident with it for first time. We will go through most of the knowledge required to understand how Cassandra achieves such a high throughput and how to properly use it and we will apply it live during the workshop.

Summary:
1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Tools
4. Internals
5. Data modelling and CQL

Requirements: Laptop with ccm installed

Carlos (@calonso) received his Masters CS at Salamanca University, Spain. He worked his first 5 career years there in a digital agency, gaining expertise on a very wide range of technologies from backend to iOS/web front end before moving to London to work as a Software Engineer at MyDrive Solutions where he does all kinds of data related stuff.

He enjoys lecturing, mentoring and speaking in conferences, like the last Cassandra Summit where he was awarded with the Cassandra MVP of the year and he got officially certified as a Cassandra Developer.

On his spare time he loves volunteering and getting involved in OpenSource and OpenData initiatives.