Ask 10 different people their opinion and you’ll get 10 different answers. The Apache Cassandra open source project is built and maintained individuals who are motivated by different things.

Lambov, a DataStax engineer who’s been a Cassandra committer since 2015, is excited about the local storage pluggability in Cassandra 5.0.

While technology may be the initial focus of a software project, it’s the people involved who make it truly fascinating.

As a Cassandra committer myself, I enjoy watching developers use these new features to create amazing things.

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