Beantown ALT.NET Group

.NET and NoSQL: Introducing Cassandra

October 26, 2011 · 6:30 PM
Microsoft NERD Center

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NoSQL databases continue to gain popularity across a variety of development platforms. One of the more popular of these databases is the Apache project, Cassandra. This talk introduces NoSQL concepts and .NET development with the wide-column database Cassandra. No previous experience with NoSQL databases is assumed.

Speaker: John Zablocki

John Zablocki is a Development Manager at HealthcareSource in Woburn, MA. He is the founder of Beantown ALT.NET and former adjunct at Fairfield University in the Dolan School of Business. John holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer, where he became an enthusiast of open source technologies. Online, John can be found at http://about.me/johnzablocki. Offline, he can be found too infrequently with his dog, daughter, and his Martin acoustic.

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Walt Crosby

Excellent overview and interesting introduction to using Cassandra. The highlight was the comparative analysis of the leading .NET Frameworks for accessing Cassandra databases.

0 · October 27, 2011
John Zablocki

I could have been better. Too many slides and not enough hands on.

0 · October 27, 2011
Michael Denomy

Good intro to Cassandra, lots to cover in a short time but enough to figure out if it was something worth pursuing. Honest assessment of where the .NET support is right now

0 · October 27, 2011