The year 2022 has been marked by economic uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, and ongoing pandemic impact. Despite these challenges, significant progress was made in delivering a real-time data cloud to enterprises and developers. DataStax, partnering with the Apache Cassandra and Apache Pulsar communities, released version 4.1 of Cassandra, which introduced new plug-in features like storage, network encryption, and guardrails. The company also secured over 220 talks for the upcoming Cassandra Summit 2023. DataStax is committed to helping customers build fast applications and scale without limits while simplifying real-time development and operations at a lower cost than competitors.