Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin) delve into the history of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database born and bred around cloud over a decade ago. Patrick is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, and a member of the Cassandra Project Management Committee. On today’s episode, Patrick shares his philosophy on developer advocacy and experience in open-source.

In this episode we discuss:

• Behind the NoSQL explosion that made Cassandra the darling of the valley
• Comparing different eras of commercializing open-source, then and now
• How Patrick became a pioneer in evangelizing and community-building
• The two kinds of people to recruit for developer relations
• Why Patrick says open-source is going to “start eating clouds”

Links:

• Apache Cassandra
• Datastax
• Datastax Astra

People mentioned:

• Avinash Lakshman (@HedvigEng)
• Prashant Malik (@pmalik)
• Adrian Cawcroft (@adrianco)
• Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower)

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