Painless PowerShell & Cassandra

PowerShell without the pain: building command line tools with C# - Jack Ukleja (http://jack.ukleja.com/)

PowerShell is a powerful shell. C# is a powerful programming language. What happens when you combine the two? You get a very powerful shell programming language. In this talk find out how you can extend PowerShell without leaving the comfort of your favourite strongly typed programming language with a whirlwind tour of PowerShell Binary Modules.

Cassandra DB: Starting the right way - Vasyl Boroviak (https://twitter.com/kore_sar)

You will get a basic understanding of how data is stored. You are going to learn how to model your Cassandra tables in a performance friendly way. We will run through a real world example.

Vasyl used to develop Cassandra backed high throughput applications. He wrote a series of blog posts on Cassandra which have become the go to guide for Russian speaking developers.