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The book review was done by Md Sadruddin and publish on his web site itteratory.com . The part of the review is published here with permission by Md Sadruddin. Last year, as I was working with Apache Ignite, I was desperately in search of a book that I could rely upon in terms of clearing my doubts. A book that would help me learn the product in a holistic manner. And as my search was on, I bumped into the book by   Shamim Ahmed Bhuiyan , Michael Zheludkov, and   Timur Isachenko . I was super impressed with it as I scanned through the book. I also put up a review of that version of the book   here . The product Apache Ignite has been evolving in a rapid speed. It introduced many new features, different architectural revamp etc as the new versions were released. But as the new features got added with the newly released versions, there came a need of the new version of the   book   covering these new features. I found out   Shamim Ahmed ...

Offtopic: My first book "High performance in-memory computing with Apache Ignite" has been released and available at http://leanpub.com/ignite . This post is my review of the Packt Publishing book Cassandra High Availability by Robbie Strickland. As the main title suggest. The book has almost 186 pages covering 9 chapters and must read for Cassandra users. Chapter 1: Cassandra's approach to High Availability The initial chapter of Cassandra High Availability cover some architectural design such as Monolithic Architecture, Master slave Architecture and the Cassandra's approach to achieve high availability. Most of all modern software system requires a non functional requirements such as High availability. In this chapter author briefly describe why RDBMS is the single point of failure and is not suitable for horizontal scaling, also the drawback of the Master Slave architecture. In the next few section Author describe the Cassandra's architecture and it's...

This post is my review of the Packt Publishing book Cassandra Design patterns by Sanjay Sharma. As the main title suggest, it's all about pattern and anti pattern of using Cassandra. The book has almost 74 pages covering 6 chapters. Preface: What this book covers and Who this book is for The preface of the book starts with the ideas behind this book. The main idea behind this book is for Cassandra audience to understand where and how to use Cassandra correctly and effectively.The Preface also provides brief summaries of each of the six chapters in the book and convention that follows in this books. Under the section "What you need for this book", author specified that, readers don't need any special version of Cassandra, however Cassandra 2.0 or above version will be proffered. The "Who this book is for" section of the Preface specify the audience of the book, it may be architect, or developer starting with Cassandra. Chapter 1: An Overview of Architect...