- Understanding Cassandra's approach, architecture, key concepts, and primary use cases- and why it's so blazingly fast - Getting Cassandra up and running on single nodes and large clusters - Applying the new design patterns, philosophies, and features that make Cassandra such a powerful data store - Leveraging CQL to simplify your transition from SQL-based RDBMSes - Deploying and provisioning through the cloud or on bare-metal hardware - Choosing the right configuration options for each type of workload - Tweaking Cassandra to get maximum performance from your hardware, OS, and JVM - Mastering Cassandra's essential tools for maintenance and monitoring - Efficiently solving the most common problems with Cassandra deployment, operation, and application development
