Cassandra en Yelp

Yelp — . 30 . , 5 . . Yelp Cassandra. , Cassandra Day Russia 2021 , Database Reliability Engineer Yelp.

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Cassandra Yelp

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Yelp (Schema Changes)

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GraphQL API.

GraphQL

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Stargate

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Client libraries

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GraphQL Playground

Playground — development environment, . GraphQL, Playground. Stargate out of the box. IDE, /graphqlschema, Cassandra-, GraphQL Queries.

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Operability

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