API Magic: Building Data Services with Apache Cassandra

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All applications depend on data, yet application developers don’t like to think about databases. What if we could shift the balance, providing a data service in developer-friendly idioms, rather than expecting developers to learn database-specific idioms?

In some sense, data modeling limits a database; it takes unformed, and thus general-purpose, clay and molds it into something purpose-built for a particular application idiom.

Essentially, we will have built a document database that you interact with through a JSON API out of Cassandra, Stargate and a reasonably efficient Cassandra data model.

That thermodynamic principle is why data APIs are the new database revolution, and why Cassandra is the database that will power this revolution.

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