Web crawling, APIs and other great automations at Ficstar

Thomas Rogers of Ficstar Software Inc will talk about the uphill battle that has been fought in learning the intricacies of Cassandra usage at scale. You will hear points about:

• dealing with the operations of Cassandra at AWS

• automating deployment strategies

• creating the necessary framework with which to relieve the pain of data modelling

• creating the testing framework that allows for proper TDD of any cassandra models in unit tests

• satisfying API routes

• using our data to empower the right e-commerce and retail decisions

• and possibly, much, much more....