[Chicago] Apache Cassandra and Python tech talk

[J. D. Jordan]

This is a preview/practice run of the talk I will be giving at Pycon.

https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/122/

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Matt O'Keefe <matt at mattokeefe.com> wrote:
> Please consider joining us on 3/1 for this meetup. Hope to see you there!
>
> http://www.meetup.com/Cassandra-Chicago/events/53378712/
>
> Description
>
> Using Apache Cassandra from Python is easy to do. This talk will cover
> setting up and using a local development instance of Cassandra from Python.
> It will cover using the low level thrift interface, as well as using the
> higher level pycassa library.
>
> ________________________________
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> Abstract
>
> Very brief intro to Apache Cassandra
> What is Apache Cassandra and where do I get it?
> Using the Cassandra CLI to setup a keyspace (table) to hold our data
> Installing the Cassandra thrift API module
> Using Cassandra from the thrift API
> Connecting
> Writing
> Reading
> Batch operations
> Installing the pycassa module
> Using Cassandra from the pycassa module
> Connecting
> Reading
> Writing
> Batch operations
> Indexing in Cassandra
> Automatic vs Rolling your own
> Using Composite Columns
> Setting them up from the CLI
> How to using them from pycassa
> Lessons learned
>
>
>
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> Speaker Profile
>
> Jeremiah Jordan is a Software Developer at Morningstar, Inc. His team
> created an Operational Data Store using Python along with Apache Cassandra,
> MySQL, Google Protocol Buffers, ActiveMQ, ZeroMQ, and Zookeeper (all being
> used from Python).
>
>
> -Matt
>
>
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