--- title: Best Apache Cassandra posts of 2021 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Apache Cassandra posts of 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/apache-cassandra/best-of/2021 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/apache-cassandra/best-of/2021 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Apache Cassandra posts of 2021 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Apache Cassandra posts of 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Apache Cassandra — 2021 1. 1 [](/posts/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-vcw8lyoarc "How Discord Stores Billions of Messages") Article Hacker News · 5y How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Discord was built in just under two months in early 2015\. The messages were stored in a MongoDB collection with a single compound index. The data and the index could no longer fit in RAM and latencies started to become unpredictable. It was time to migrate to a database more suited to the task. 29 2 2. 2 [](/posts/build-a-crypto-price-tracker-using-node-js-and-cassandra-vtkda10pe "Build A Crypto Price Tracker using Node.js and Cassandra") Article DZone · 5y Build A Crypto Price Tracker using Node.js and Cassandra Apache Cassandra is a wide-column, No.SQL database that is ideal for append-only, write-intensive workloads. You can feed data from Cassandra to a wide variety of applications such as a cryptocurrency trading platform, price monitoring and alerting. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use a small Node.js application to get cryptocurrency data from an API and ingest that into Cassandra for downstream consumption. 15 3. 3 [](/posts/exploring-data-netflix-ui6eu5tcz "Exploring Data @ Netflix") Article Netflix TechBlog · 5y Exploring Data @ Netflix Netflix Data Explorer gives engineers fast, safe access to their data stored in Cassandra and Dynomite/Redis data stores. Explore mode gives you quick access to table data and a powerful CQL IDE with features like autocomplete and helpful snippets. Schema designer lets users drag and drop their way to a new table. 14 [See all Apache Cassandra archives](/tags/apache-cassandra/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/apache-cassandra/best-of/2021#page","url":"https://daily.dev/tags/apache-cassandra/best-of/2021","name":"Best Apache Cassandra Posts of 2021","description":"The most upvoted Apache Cassandra posts of 2021, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/apache-cassandra/best-of/2021#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-vcw8lyoarc","name":"How Discord Stores Billions of Messages"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/build-a-crypto-price-tracker-using-node-js-and-cassandra-vtkda10pe","name":"Build A Crypto Price Tracker using Node.js and Cassandra"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/exploring-data-netflix-ui6eu5tcz","name":"Exploring Data @ Netflix"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tags","item":"https://daily.dev/tags"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Apache Cassandra","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/apache-cassandra"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/apache-cassandra/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"2021"}]}]} ```