DynamoDB Cassandra Proxy with Sebastian Estevez and Jake Luciani | Ep. 118 Distributed Data Show

Summary: Bonus episode this week! David talks with Seb and Jake about the DynamoDB Cassandra Proxy, learns it's history what it's all about, and gets all the important details for developers to understand how it works. Highlights 00:28 - Introductions with Seb and Jake 00:47 - What is the Cassandra DynamoDB Proxy? 1:53 - What’s the backstory here? 3:44 - Give Dynamo superpowers it doesn’t already have 4:10 - DataStax culture fosters autonomy for coding up ideas 5:52 - What is the use case for the Cassandra DynamoDB proxy? 9:10 - What pushed this app from just an idea to something more complete? 11:11 - It’s easier to switch when you don’t have to run a bunch of code 11:57 - Where does this play in the DataStax ecosystem? 14:33 - Real-time replication is a bit more complicated 16:35 - Why not build this directly in Cassandra core? 21:55 - Is there a cost for data serialization/deserialization? 22:37 - Talking about pluggable persistence 24:10 - Common themes around developers and community 25:44 - Get the proxy at https://github.com/datastax/dynamo-cassandra-proxy/