Apache Cassandra with Patrick McFadin

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin) delve into the history of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database born and bred around cloud over a decade ago. Patrick is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, and a member of the Cassandra Project Management Committee. On today’s episode, Patrick shares his philosophy on developer advocacy and experience in open-source. In this episode we discuss: Behind the NoSQL explosion that made Cassandra the darling of the valley Comparing different eras of commercializing open-source, then and now How Patrick became a pioneer in evangelizing and community-building The two kinds of people to recruit for developer relations Why Patrick says open-source is going to “start eating clouds” Links: Apache Cassandra Datastax Datastax Astra People mentioned: Avinash Lakshman (@HedvigEng) Prashant Malik (@pmalik) Adrian Cawcroft (@adrianco) Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) Other episodes: Chef with Adam Jacob