Summary: Patrick and Jeff share why DBAs are the biggest cheerleaders for our Cassandra Developer Workshops and some of the top things DBAs wish developers knew about Cassandra. 0:00 - Jeff and Patrick talk about our upcoming developer workshops and how we get into the code as quickly as possible: https://www.datastax.com/events/cassandra-developer-workshop-new-york https://www.datastax.com/events/cassandra-developer-workshop-london https://www.datastax.com/events/cassandra-developer-workshop-paris https://www.datastax.com/events/cassandra-application-launch-pad-developers-austin-tx 5:00 - We still provide training for DBAs as well and look for some upcoming public events. 6:40 - Cassandra's lightweight transactions (LWT) are often misunderstood. You should use them to avoid race conditions, not as a general purpose tool. 10:36 - Things DBAs wish developers knew include inserting nulls, which creates tombstones and results in more work for the database. 13:45 - Batches in Cassandra are not atomic (although some wars have been fought over that term), and they're not for bulk loading. Use them to keep writes to multiple tables in sync, but be careful about batch size. 20:17 - We'd love to see you at upcoming developer workshops in North America and Europe. Bring a friend!
