Summary: Patrick talks with longtime Cassandra contributor and committer Yuki about his background with Cassandra, Change Data Capture, and the state of the Cassandra community in Japan. 0:00 - Patrick welcomes longtime Cassandra contributor and committer Yuki to the show and we learn what attracted Yuki to Cassandra 2:55 - Yuki and Patrick talk about what it was like working with early Cassandra releases before CQL 4:03 - Yuki's efforts on translating documentation into Japanese led to his becoming a Cassandra committer and an early employee at Riptano (original name of DataStax) 6:15 - Yuki moved to the USA for about 5 years to work on Cassandra but is now back in Japan as a Solution Architect 7:50 - Using Cassandra as your source of truth means you need a Change Data Capture facility to flow changes to other systems. 9:48 - Yuki gives an overview of the history of CDC in Cassandra and how it works 11:53 - The hard part of processing changes from multiple nodes is de-duplication. Several companies are working on this 13:20 - Comparing and contrasting engineering vs. solution architecture roles 14:58 - Cassandra community in Japan is emerging. There is a lot of awareness of Cassandra but people are working to get their skills up. 16:58 - Looking forward to DataStax Constellation as a great way to reduce the learning curve 17:33 - Cassandra Summit Japan is the oldest of these events and has been running continuously
