Every year Bazaarvoice holds an internal technical conference for our engineers. Each conference has a theme and as a part of these conferences we invite noted experts in fields related to the theme to give presentations. The latest conference was themed “unlocking the power of our data.” You can read more about it here.

Nick Bailey is a software developer for datastax, the company that develops commercially supported, enterprise-ready solutions based on the open source Apache Cassandra database. In his BV I/O talk he introduces Cassandra, discusses several useful approaches to data modeling and presents a couple real world use-cases.