Wikimedia Content API - A Cassandra Use-case

Explore the Wikimedia Foundation's use of Apache Cassandra in their content API through this conference talk at Strange Loop. Discover how the non-profit organization, serving over 18 billion page views monthly to 500 million unique visitors, tackles the challenges of providing low-latency storage for massive datasets in a globally distributed environment. Learn about the public-facing API that offers programmatic access to full-history content and metadata, the pre-generation of computationally intensive transformations, and the diverse use-cases of Cassandra in this system. Gain insights into the development and operational challenges faced by the Wikimedia team, as well as their successes in implementing this massively-scalable distributed database solution.