Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/cassandra-internals-the-read-path-tyler-hobbs-datastax-cassandra-summit-2016 | This talk will cover what really goes in the read path, from the driver all the way to reading from SSTables on disk. This includes selecting a coordinator, paging, selecting replicas, handling failures, handling inconsistency, index lookups, bloom filters, and more. About the Speaker Tyler Hobbs Cassandra Committer, Datastax I've been a Cassandra committer for two years, and have worked on Cassandra-related projects for the last six years.