Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/building-highly-available-apps-on-cassandra-robbie-strickland-weather-company-c-summit-2016 | Cassandra was built from the ground up to enable linearly scalable, always-on applications. But the path to high availability has many land mines that can mean failure for the inexperienced user. In this talk, I will offer practical advice on how to achieve 100% uptime on millions of transactions per second. I'll address all aspects of the topic, including deployment, configuration, application design, and operations. About the Speaker Robbie Strickland VP, Software Engineering, The Weather Company (IBM) Robbie works for The Weather Company, leading the team that builds data analysis services for the digital business, serving the likes of weather.com, Weather Underground, and the TWC mobile apps. He has been involved in the Cassandra project since 2010 and has contributed in a variety of ways over the years, including work on drivers for Scala and C#, the Hadoop and Spark integrations, heading up the Atlanta Cassandra Users Group, and answering lots of Stack Overflow questions.