DataStax Academy Live events

DS201: DataStax Enterprise Foundations of Apache Cassandra^™

For developers and teams ready to learn the basics of using and scaling the core of DataStax Enterprise, Apache Cassandra™.

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of Apache Cassandra^™, its distributed architecture, and how data is stored. You will master Cassandra's internal architecture by studying read path, write path, and compaction. Topics such as consistency, replication, anti-entropy operations, and gossip ensure you develop the skills necessary to build disruptive cloud applications. Hands-on exercises are delivered using DataStax's KillrVideo app, built for training.

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DS210: Operations and Performance Tuning

For software professionals who need to manage and performance tune a DataStax cluster.

DS210 delivers the tools and knowledge required to operate and fine-tune your DataStax Enterprise deployments. You will learn expert skills and techniques to tune performance and environments, deploy multi-data center functionality, diagnose and resolve common production problems, and more.

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Prerequisite Knowledge:

DS201: DataStax Enterprise Foundations of Apache Cassandra™
Basic understanding of DataStax Enterprise features

DS220: Data Modeling

For developers and teams ready to make DataStax Enterprise their standard distributed database platform for scaling cloud applications.

DS220 teaches you data modeling techniques essential to a successful Apache Cassandra^™ and DataStax Enterprise deployment. You’ll learn conceptual data modeling techniques, principles and methodology, design techniques and optimization, and review select data modeling use cases.

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DS410: DataStax Enterprise Advanced for Administrators

For software professionals who need to manage and performance tune DataStax Enterprise their standard distributed database platform for scaling cloud applications.

DS410 covers advanced topics: management, maintenance, and optimization of clusters, rebalancing, rebuilding, optimizing high availability, migrating data centers, replication, security, and more. Performance Tuning covers latency vs. throughput, proactive performance tuning, monitoring, stress tools, operating system and schema settings, compaction, and data model impact. Maintaining data section encompasses node and rack, corruption and recovery, rebuilding indexes, backup and restore et al.

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Prerequisites:

DS201: DataStax Enterprise Foundations of Apache Cassandra™
DS210: DataStax Enterprise Operations with Apache Cassandra™

AC250: Apache Cassandra™ for DevOps FastTrack

For software professionals seeking to use Apache Cassandra™

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of Apache Cassandra™, its distributed architecture, and how data is stored. You will master Cassandra's internal architecture and Data Modeling techniques that will ensure you develop the skills necessary to build disruptive cloud applications. You’ll also learn how to estimate the size of the cluster, how to configure and modify the cluster configuration, how to monitor and tune the cluster as well as the supporting operating system, JVM and hardware.

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Prerequisites:

Prior software administration or development experience

May 20 - 22, 2020