Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/the-best-and-worst-of-cassandrastress-tool-christopher-batey-the-last-pickle-c-summit-2016 | Making sure your Data Model will work on the production cluster after 6 months as well as it does on your laptop is an important skill. It's one that we use every day with our clients at The Last Pickle, and one that relies on tools like the cassandra-stress. Knowing how the data model will perform under stress once it has been loaded with data can prevent expensive re-writes late in the project. In this talk Christopher Batey, Consultant at The Last Pickle, will shed some light on how to use the cassandra-stress tool to test your own schema, graph the results and even how to extend the tool for your own use cases. While this may be called premature optimisation for a RDBS, a successful Cassandra project depends on it's data model. About the Speaker Christopher Batey Consultant / Software Engineer, The Last Pickle Christopher (@chbatey) is a part time consultant at The Last Pickle where he works with clients to help them succeed with Apache Cassandra as well as a freelance software engineer working in London. Likes: Scala, Haskell, Java, the JVM, Akka, distributed databases, XP, TDD, Pairing. Hates: Untested software, code ownership. You can checkout his blog at: http://www.batey.info