Eddie Slatterly - Cassandra Summit 2012 - theCUBE
The Cube - Cassandra Summit 2012 - Eddie Slatterly, Splunk, with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly The idea of DevOps is quite a new thing for organizations. The promising feature to decrease high-stress and high-risk involving multiples teams for application release is what companies are closely looking into. The system gives developers more environment control and putting more application-centric touch. In a nutshell, DevOps is a fusion of the following branches: software engineering, quality assurance and technology operations. One of the many successful stories that come out of software development, Chief Big Data Evangelist at Splunk, Eddie Satterly sat down with SiliconANGLE.com’s John Furrier and Jeff Kelley for a hefty discussion on Big Data, storage and databases, Cassandra and the future of DevOps. Borne out of the budding analytics industry, Splunk has been the reliable partners of IT departments in universities and enterprise or government network in combating cyber threats. The technology works like an intelligence body that harnesses big data to create patterns and predict cyber attacks. But aside from this software, the discussion of tech movers touched the topic of Cassandra—an open source DBMS. Satterly was recently hailed as one of the champions of educating individuals with massively scalable NoSQL database. He was chosen to partake on DataStax MVP Program for Apache Cassandra. This has given him the opportunity to write articles and whitepapers, speak with press, analysts and industry thought-leaders, to present both online in webinars and at key events, to blog as an official MVP and many more. He now holds a global distinction in the field of big data. The exposures he got from the program have opened a variety of doors for him following his successful stint with Expedia and other Fortune 500 Companies, mainly focusing on emerging technologies and innovations. Going back to the early part of the conversation, Satterly has already positioned Splunk’s superiority in terms of having real-time components process data and transactions. During the discussion, he mentioned Cassandra being used on the backend and people want to have access to recent data and they want it now in the form of a dashboard or quick look. Initially developed and released by Facebook in 2008, Cassandra was abandoned by the top social networking site to built Facebook Messaging platform on HBase. The main features of the database management system include decentralization, multi-datacenter replication support, scalability, fault-free, tunable consistency and more. It carries good approaches to replication and partitioning, right out the box. IBM, Cisco, Netflix, RackSpace, Formspring, Twitter, SoundCloud are among the prominent users of Cassandra.