Real World Use Case : Building an E-commerce Site on Cassandra

Join us for an insightful session with Aaron Ploetz as he walks through a real-world use case: Building an E-commerce Site on Apache Cassandra. Many of today’s top retailers rely on distributed databases to power shopping experiences at scale. In this talk, you’ll see how Cassandra enables resilient, high-performance backends that thrive under peak demand — from holiday sales to unexpected surges.

### What You’ll Learn:

• How distributed databases underpin large-scale E-commerce systems
• Designing scalable, distributed data models for product catalogs and services
• Best practices for building an E-commerce backend with Cassandra
• Key considerations and trade-offs when modeling data for retail use cases

### Why You Shouldn’t Miss It:

E-commerce platforms demand fault tolerance, elasticity, and performance across multiple digital channels. Aaron will share techniques and strategies drawn from industry experience to help you build — or improve — product services on Cassandra. Whether you’re in a start-up designing your first platform or in an enterprise modernizing your stack, you’ll leave with practical insights for architecting scalable retail systems.
This isn’t a high-level overview — it’s grounded in real-world examples. You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of how to apply Cassandra to mission-critical retail workloads.