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How to Write Better Apps

How to Write Better Apps

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to write better applications. This is an intermediate to advanced level lesson. Some of the topics covered are:

  • Monitoring and important metrics to track
  • Why use prepared statements and what are the benefits?
  • What is token aware and why use it?
  • Application enhancement and a few options for how to implement it, including client-side filtering, server-side filtering, secondary indexes, materialized views, denormalizing data. Covers the pros and cons of each possibility and when and if to use it
  • Considerations when working with multiple data centers. Includes topics such as consistency, replication factor, performance. Also includes a discussion of tracing and top partitions.
  • Best practices related to data modeling including, partitions sizing, partition distribution, prepared statements, caching, parallelism, retries, and batch operations

By the end of this lesson, you’ll have a better understanding of application development, caveats, performance, and what you should or shouldn’t do.

You can read more about these topics in this blog post and in the documentation.

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