Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/hey-relational-developer-lets-go-crazy-patrick-mcfadin-datastax-cassandra-summit-2016 | You've made a good career developing applications using a relational database. You know learning how to be a Cassandra developer is going to be a great skill to add. Now it's time to bridge those two things into reality. I was in your shoes and I can help. How do you work without ACID transactions? The data model looks similar but is so different! What are some of the bad things I should avoid? What are some of the traps I can fall into moving from a relational database? I hear these questions all the time. Let's spend some time to walk through each one and get you on track. Before you know it, you'll be going crazy on your next Cassandra based application! About the Speaker Patrick McFadin Chief Evangelist, DataStax Patrick McFadin is one of the leading experts of Apache Cassandra and data modeling techniques. As the Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, he has helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons and an Oracle DBA/Developer for over 15 years.