Grails in Front, Cassandra In Back
Cassandra is a scalable, highly available, column-oriented data store in use at Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, Reddit, Rackspace, and a growing list of other deployments. It offers a compelling combination of a rich data model, a robust deployment track record, and a sound architecture—and it isn't just for web-scale operations. It might be a good fit for your Grails app!
In this session, we'll learn the basics of Cassandra, then look at how to use it for storing data in a simple Grails application. We'll work through a simple data modeling exercise and look at the code required for interfacing with this leading NoSQL solution.
About Tim Berglund
Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He believes the best developer is one who is well-informed of specifics and can also make deep connections between software development and the broader world. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony.
His firm, the August Technology Group, helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects atop the JVM. The August Group's technology preferences reflect the generalist sensibilities of its founder, and its development practices are always lightweight, self-improving, and humanizing by design.
Tim is a speaker internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in the United States, and is co-president of the Denver Open Source User Group in the Denver area, co-author of the DZone Clojure RefCard, co-presenter of the best-selling O'Reilly Git Master Class, co-author of Building and Testing with Gradle, and a member of the O'Reilly Expert Network.
He lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three children.
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