Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/building-a-multiregion-cluster-at-target-aaron-ploetz-target-cassandra-summit-2016 | Lessons learned from a year spent building a Cassandra cluster over multiple regions, data centers, and providers. Will discuss our successes and learnings on replication, operations, and application development. About the Speakers Aaron Ploetz, Lead Technical Architect, Target Andrew From, Senior Engineer, Target Aaron is a Lead Technical Architect for Target, where he coaches development teams on modeling and building applications for Cassandra. He is active in the Cassandra tags on StackOverflow, and has also contributed patches to cqlsh. Aaron holds a B.S. in Management/Computer Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, a M.S. in Software Engineering and Database Technologies from Regis University, and is a 2x DataStax MVP for Apache Cassandra.