Getting started

The first steps to building an application for use with Apache Cassandra are both important to get right, and easy to get wrong. Here we will cover some fundamental questions about whether or not Cassandra is even the correct data store for the application in question.

But first, let's start with an overview of what the wrong path looks like.

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