Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/bucket-your-partitions-wisely-markus-hfer-codecentric-ag-cassandra-summit-2016 | When we talk about bucketing we essentially talk about possibilities to split cassandra partitions in several smaller parts, rather than having only one large partition. Bucketing of cassandra partitions can be crucial for optimizing queries, preventing large partitions or to fight TombstoneOverwhelmingException which can occur when creating too many tombstones. In this talk I want to show how to recognize large partitions during datamodeling. I will also show different strategies we used in our projects to create, use and maintain buckets for our partitions. About the Speaker Markus Hofer IT Consultant, codecentric AG Markus Hofer works as an IT Consultant for codecentric AG in Minster, Germany. He works on microservice architectures backed by DSE and/or Apache Cassandra. Markus supports and trains customers building cassandra based applications.