Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "This will store the PID of the Cassandra process in a file named cassandra.pid in the local/cassandra directory."

A block of code is set as follows:

<dependencies> <dependency>   <groupId>com.datastax.cassandra</groupId>   <artifactId>cassandra-driver-core</artifactId>   <version>3.6.0</version> </dependency></dependencies>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

cassdba@cqlsh> use packt;cassdba@cqlsh:packt>

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that ...

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