Cassandra Upgrade in production : Strategies and Best Practices
Channel: The ASF
Date: 2020-10-21

Cassandra Upgrade in production : Strategies and Best Practices
Laxmikant Upadhyay

A presentation from ApacheCon @Home 2020
https://apachecon.com/acah2020/

This session will cover how to perform Cassandra cluster upgrade in production effectively. We will learn about best practices for planning & executing Cassandra upgrades. We will also discuss and understand different Cassandra upgrade strategies and their respective pros & cons so that Operations team can select the appropriate strategy. Finally, we will talk about standard upgrade issues and how we have created custom solutions at Ericsson to overcome those issues. The session is useful for Cassandra Operators, Administrators and other Cassandra users involved in planning, performing and testing upgrades.

Laxmikant Upadhyay is an Apache Cassandra enthusiast with over 10 years of experience in developing mutliple distributed scalable and HA software solutions. Currently, he works as Sr. Data engineer (nosql) and Cassandra SME with American Express R&D. He is core contributor of open source Cassandra Audtiing plugin ecaudit . He has designed and implemented multiple distributed, fault tolerant, scalable and HA software systems. He has helped many teams in designing efficient and scalable data model and performance tuning of C*.