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The intent was to be a little hyperbolic and self-effacing. In terms of competent and capable developers, I think it’s hard to get a better return on your skill set than adding “da…

You'd be screwed if the DB went down, for one.

Data is big $$$. Slap a couple of NoSQL databases and Spark on your resume and watch the money roll in. DBAs are disappearing with managed services, though.

I like Scylla. I've been working with it for a while now, and it's a good alternative for transactional loads. It's a hell of a lot faster than Cassandra, and much much much much c…

Cassandra won't try and load a partition into memory. It doesn't work that way. The only way you would get behavior like that is by setting "allow filtering" to on. Allow filtering…