Building for Data is Mission-Critical: Ed Anuff of DataStax

<p>The Big Themes:<br />• It just doesn’t magically happen: It’s not the data you already have, this is one of the hard lessons that lot of folks think.<br />• DataStax fits into that equation: And this is one of the things that I think goes back to what you talked about in terms of agility.<br />• Everybody has S3 compatible APIs: You've got your storage now that is just scale out via very simple APIs. You've got your compute now that's been standardized on top of Kubernetes.<br />• You may have some rock stars: But majority of code written even at these internet companies is written by good developers. And I guarantee you, you've got good developers.</p><p>The Big Quotes:<br />“And so Cassandra was what enabled a number of retailers, many of the major retailers in operation today built critical parts of their e-commerce stack on top of Cassandra.”</p><p>“The starting point for most folks is you start talking about saying, ‘Okay, you need to collect and log and interpret all of these streams of data.’”</p><p>“And so the open data stack is about trying to make data catch up to where Kubernetes is in terms of giving you that agility.”</p>