Experiences Building a Cassandra Orchestrator(CM)
Cassandra is a kick-ass NoSQL database. Battle tested by Netflix, Apple, Uber and so many great cloud scale companies. If you want to run Cassandra in production you need to buy DataStax Enterprise or engineer your own solution - since Cassandra community is not enough. My company loves open source and my customers love open as well so we decided to build our own Cassandra orchestrator for a lack of better name we called it CM(Cassandra Manager). CM runs on AWS(Ec2) and managed single and multi-region clusters for Cassandra. CM has java interfaces so even today it just runs on AWS it could easily be ported to in containers or other fabric runtimes, which may happen on the long-term future. So it might sound crazy when you think about to build engineering around Cassandra but is actually not several companies in Silicon Valey like Netflix and outside of the valley do similar things or Databases being NoSQL or Relational. Automation is must if you want to scale, automation is way mo