Jeff Carpenter is a developer advocate at DataStax, where he uses his background in system architecture, microservices and Apache Cassandra to help empower developers and operations engineers to build distributed systems that are scalable, reliable, and secure. Jeff has worked on large-scale systems in the defense and hospitality industries and is co-author of Cassandra: The Definitive Guide.

Why a Cloud-Native Database Must Run on K8s
We’ve been talking about migrating workloads to the cloud for a long time, but a look at the application portfolios of many IT organizations demonstrates that there’s still a lot of work ...

A Maturity Model for Cloud-Native Databases
Companies have been leveraging Kubernetes and other technologies to move workloads to the clouds. But several nagging challenges have remained: what to do with the data layer, what technologies should you use, ...