Being asked to write the next edition of Mastering Apache Cassandra was a bit of a tall order. After all, writing a master-level book sort of implies that I have mastered whatever subject the book entails, which, by proxy, means that I should have mastered Apache Cassandra in order to be asked to author such a book. Honestly, that seems pretty far from the truth.
I feel privileged to have been a part of the Apache Cassandra community since 2012. I've been helping out by answering questions on Stack Overflow since then, as well as submitting Jira tickets, and the first of my patches to the project a couple of years later. During that time I've also written a few articles (about Apache Cassandra), managed to be selected as a DataStax ...
