My First Week with DataStax Apollo

DataStax has released a free Beta for its Apache Cassandra as a Service offering, Apollo, which is the first service on their cloud platform, Constellation. During the Beta period, users can create clusters in both Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. The billing process will differ between the two platforms; AWS clusters will be billed through DataStax, while GCP clusters will be billed through the user's GCP account. Documentation for running clusters during the Beta is available on a temporary site. Apollo includes access via DataStax Studio, which allows users to configure schema, load sample data, and more. The author of this blog post successfully ported their Reservation Service microservice to work with Apollo by externalizing connection logic from the service code and updating schema management code. They recommend three key steps for porting an application to run on Apollo: configuring the DataStax Java Driver, managing keyspaces, and handling schema changes. The author is looking forward to exploring more of Apollo's features during the Beta period and encourages feedback from users.