Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/improving-tombstone-compactions-in-apache-cassandra-james-witschey-philip-thompson-datastax-c-summit-2016 | Clearing tombstones from SSTables can improve the performance of many operations, but has been a longstanding source of pain for operators. With the changes introduced in CASSANDRA-7019, the Apache Cassandra tick-tock release line offers many new tombstone management features. Jim and Philip will discuss how operators can use these features to gain greater control over compaction behavior and manage tombstones with more power and precision than ever before. About the Speaker Philip Thompson Software Engineer, DataStax I'm a software engineer at DataStax, and the maintainer of CCM. I create tools to assist with testing Apache Cassandra.