The Last Pickle Ltd

Because Friday is the best day to cut out releases, Reaper 3.0 for Apache Cassandra is out! Prepare your upgrade by reading the release blog post: thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/… Spoiler: we removed support for postgres/h2, but added some great new features!

Check out @MilesGarnsey first TLP blog post and learn how to setup certificates for Cassandra in Kubernetes: thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/…

This is the first instalment in our certificate management series. In this blog by @ossarga we explore different ways to deploy certificates to support encryption in Cassandra and how to rotate them without downtime. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/… #ssl #security #encryption

Get going with RedHat’s CodeReady Containers… Our latest blog post by @mck_sw thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/…

Take a peek into how Apache Cassandra sets up its Continuous Integration for its 40K+ tests, with our latest blog post by @mck_sw thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/… #Apache #Cassandra #junit #pytest #jenkins

Reaper 2.2 was just released with a major redesign of its internal segment orchestration. Check out the new features in our latest blog post by @alexanderDeja thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/…

Capturing flamegraphs for Apache #Cassandra in Kubernetes using the cass-operator, nosqlbench and the async-profiler. Our latest blog post by @mck_sw thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/…

A significantly better out-of-the-box experience for new users on Cassandra 4.0. Check out this serious deep dive by @ossarga into the topic of vnodes and choosing the correct num_tokens setting. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/…

There is just no value to the read repair chance in Apache Cassandra, despite it adding a significant amount of background load to your clusters. Our latest blog post by @mck_sw goes through the feature in detail, and how to disable it. thelastpickle.com/blog/2021/…

Check out our latest blog post by @alexanderDeja, exploring the performance impacts of creating many columns in Apache Cassandra tables. thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/…

Ever wondered how many tables is too many in an Apache Cassandra cluster? Read our latest blog post by @alexanderDeja to find out the performance impacts of large data models. thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/…

Reaper 2.1 for Apache Cassandra with Astra support was released a few days ago. Discover the main features and improvements that shipped in this version in our new blog post by @alexanderDeja thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/…

Dial C* for Operator – making Reaper happen in #Kubernetes with the new Cass Operator v1.3.0. Check it out, our latest blog post by @johnsanda thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/… #Cassandra

What benefits with Java 11 and 14 bring to Apache Cassandra 4.0? Check out @alexanderDeja amazing deep dive into some JDK and GC benchmarks… thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/…

Cassandra Medusa 0.7 was released with lots of improvements and bug fixes for restores. Update through pypi or our debian bintray repo. github.com/thelastpickle/cas…

Check out our latest blog post by @johnsanda taking a deep dive into provisioning an Apache Cassandra cluster using the DataStax Kubernetes operator thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/… #cassandra #apache #kubernetes #k8

Benchmarking and stress testing Apache #Cassandra are important exercises that operators and developers do regularly. Knowing what you want to achieve and how to interpret results is a big part of the challenge. Check out our latest blog post… thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/…

We are very proud to announce The Last Pickle is joining @DataStax thelastpickle.com/blog/2020/…