Blasting Off into Stargate using HTTPie

As a DataStax Developer Advocate, the author's role is to assist teams in providing an excellent experience with Cassandra and related products. Datastax Astra is a multi-cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS) that offers robust free tiers for running small production workloads or personal projects without requiring credit card information. The platform supports CQL, a slightly different query language from SQL, but Stargate, an open source product, provides REST, GraphQL, and document APIs to interact with data. The author has developed an authentication plugin for HTTPie, a tool designed for REST API interaction, which can be used in conjunction with Astra. Instructions are provided on how to set up the environment using this plugin.