C* 2012: Virtual Nodes - Operational Aspirin (Sam Overton, Acunu)

Session: Virtual Nodes -- Operational Aspirin
Speaker: Sam Overton (Acunu)
Description: This talk will explain the concept and implementation of virtual nodes in Cassandra, and the numerous benefits it brings. We will show you how virtual nodes make token management a thing of the past, improves the failure characteristics, improves bootstrapping and decommission speed, make incremental cluster growing and shrinking possible, and much more.

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  Science & Technology