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Two Reasons Why Apache Cassandra Is the Database for Real-Time Applications

CIO Business Intelligence

Keeping it at acceptable levels requires an underlying data architecture that can handle the demands of globally deployed real-time applications. Even as the world has gotten smaller, exactly where your data lives still makes a difference in terms of speed and latency. Cassandra is both horizontally scalable and data-center aware. .

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

We started off really building one product in Sydney called Jira — which is still our largest product — that started off as a bug tracker for software developers. Because we felt that, back then, there was software that cost $100,000 to install, and there was free software, open-source, but there was really nothing in between.