Eliminating the Pain of Operational Overhead

When enterprises go digital, they generate massive amounts of data. To harness it, they need globally distributed, cloud-based, always-on apps that make users happy in real time.

How does?Best Buy, a multinational consumer electronics brand, provide its customers instantaneous price matching and real-time inventory awareness, even during?holiday traffic spikes? How does Netflix offer real-time movie recommendations based on your viewing history?

Both companies are among the many organizations that have?abandoned SQL databases?and are using open source NoSQL?Apache Cassandra??as their globally distributed database. Cassandra is popular with developers for many reasons. It’s scalable, highly resilient and fault tolerant. Cassandra also reads rapidly and writes even faster; it can handle massive amounts of complex and rapidly changing data in real-time.

What’s not to love??Two words: operational overhead.?

The complexity of infrastructure setup, combined with installing, configuring, securing, operating, and scaling Cassandra translates into pain for operators and/or developers. However, while it can be complex to implement and maintain, Cassandra can always be counted on to do the job.

Enjoying the benefits of Cassandra means doing more with your data.?Astra DB?is a cloud database built on Cassandra that is available as a serverless, pay-as-you-go managed service. It’s the leading database for developers building Cassandra apps faster — without the time and cost of self-managed operations.

While security is always important, it is critical for data. Operations staff are often charged with configuring security capabilities depending on the needs of the business and the application developers. Too often, they are tasked with the care and feeding of multiple, disparate, and unfamiliar databases. This introduces business risk and is demoralizing for staff working with customer-facing databases.?

Astra DB’s?turnkey security eliminates this pain by allowing ops people to focus on higher-value activity by reducing or eliminating work. It allows teams to return their focus to application development.???

Today, testing and release management are a more important part of the developer mix than ever before. Astra DB?was built with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) in mind so it fits naturally into your DevOps practices. True auto scaling doesn’t just scale up, it also scales down. That means when you’re using our?Terraform Provider?or?DevOps API?you’ll see lower costs (and complexity) to develop, maintain, and execute your pipelines.?

Developers can experiment rapidly and build fast, modern apps on a powerful, reliable database, knowing that their projects can scale without limits. Best of all, your?Astra DB?database skills will travel with you to any cloud provider.?

Try?Astra DB?today and you’ll quickly see why it's the preferred choice of developers working for Venmo, Barracuda, Priceline, and other leading organizations.?

Get started now?and receive $300/year in free credit with the most generous free tier of any DBaaS. That’s up to 80GB each month! You can sign up with Google, GitHub, or your email with no credit card required and start coding in five minutes.

Cassandra Without the Pain.?Feel It.