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1. Awesome Elixir

Code Analysis

• DepViz - A visual tool to help developers understand Elixir recompilation in their projects. (Code (⭐191)).

2. Awesome Connectivity Info

Global Connectivity Indexes

• A4AI Mobile Broadband Data Costs - (2020)(Q4 2018) (2017) Price of Broadband Data (1GB mobile prepaid) as % of GNI per capita.

3. Awesome Cassandra

Cassandra History

• ZDNet: Cassandra Turns 10 - Highlights of the growth of Cassandra over it's first 10 years.

Cassandra Distributions / Cassandra Compliant Databases on JVM

• DDAC/Luna - Datastax Distribution of Cassandra, a production ready distribution with a bulk loader supported by Datastax. DDAC is Deprecated now, but Datastax is still supporting Cassandra with it's new Luna Service.

Cassandra Distributions / Cassandra Compliant Databases on C++

• ScyllaDB (⭐8.5k) - NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Cassandra.

Cassandra Distributions / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Open Source Cassandra

• Instaclustr Managed Cassandra as a Service - Instaclustr provides a fully managed and SOC 2 certified hosted & managed service for Cassandra® on AWS, Azure, GCP and IBM Cloud.

• Aiven for Cassandra - Aiven for Cassandra is a managed and hosted distributed NoSQL database providing scalability, high availability, and excellent fault tolerance. Cassandra as a Service is available on Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, and UpCloud.

• Microsoft Azure Managed Instance for Cassandra - Azure Managed Instance for Cassandra provides automated deployment and scaling operations for managed open-source Cassandra datacenters. It accelerates hybrid scenarios and reduces ongoing maintenance.

Cassandra Distributions / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB: Cassandra API - Azure Cosmos DB provides the Cassandra API (preview) for applications that are written for Cassandra that need premium capabilities.

• Amazon Keyspaces for Cassandra - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon Keyspaces for Cassandra provides a CQL compliant access to a "Serverless" auto-scaling datastore.

Using Cassandra / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• The LIMIT Clause in Cassandra might not work as you think - Blog post for the considerations on the efficiency of the LIMIT clause.

• Top 5 reasons to use the Cassandra Database - Few good reasons why you'd want to consider Cassandra.

• Cassandra Use Cases: When to use and when not to use Cassandra - Practical guide for when to use and when not to use Cassandra.

• Cassandra Database (Guide) - Great guide to learn about Cassandra, from Instaclustr.

Cassandra Data Modeling / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• CQL: This is not the SQL you are Looking For - Presentation that explores and explains the differences between the CQL and SQL languages.

• Spring Data Cassandra Examples (⭐4) - Maven project that contains examples showcasing the features and functionality of the Spring Data Cassandra project.

Cassandra Architecture / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• The Gossip Protocol - Inside Cassandra. - Good visual explanation of how Cassandra keeps consistent.

• Introduction To The Cassandra 3.x Storage Engine - The 3.x storage engine makes it easier for Cassandra to get bytes off disk.

• Dropping columns in Cassandra 3.0 - Blog post describing the steps Cassandra takes when a column is dropped.

• About Deletes and Tombstones in Cassandra - Deleting distributed and replicated data from a system such as Cassandra is far trickier than in a relational database.

• Undetectable tombstones in Cassandra - Indepth analysis of cell and range tombstones.

• Understanding the Nuance of Compaction in Cassandra - Overview of how Cassandra manages data on disk.

• Guide to Cassandra Thread Pools - Guide that provides a description of the different thread pools and how to monitor them. Includes what to alert on, common issues and solutions. Old but very useful reference.

• Improving Cassandra's Front Door and Backpressure - Explore how an incoming request was processed by Cassandra before, see what they changed, and look at new relevant configuration knobs available.

• Cassandra Architecture - High level overview of Cassandra from Instaclustr.

• The 10 Things I hate about Cassandra - Do you really want to use Cassandra? Learn why not to use it.

Cassandra Monitoring / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• Resources for Monitoring Datastax, Cassandra, Spark, & Solr Performance - Blog post detailing different types of monitoring tools and their purpose.

• Monitoring Cassandra With Grafana And Influx DB - Blog post explaining how to set up Cassandra monitoring with influxDB and Grafana.

• Cassandra Monitoring - Introduction (1/2) - Blog post detailing how Cassandra metrics can be gathered.

• Monitoring Cassandra using Intel Snap and Grafana - Blog post describing how to monitor Cassandra using the Intel Snap open source telemetry framework.

• Cassandra Monitoring Best Practice Guide - Blog post that aims to touch all the important aspects of Cassandra monitoring.

Cassandra Maintenance / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• Cassy (⭐39) - Simple and integrated backup tool for Cassandra.

• Medusa (⭐202) - Cassandra backup system.

Cassandra Performance Tuning / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• Cassandra Node Diagnostics Tools (⭐51) - Monitoring and audit power kit for Cassandra.

• Performing User Defined Compactions in Cassandra - Documenting a process by which we tell Cassandra to create a compaction task for one or more tables explicitly.

• Modeling real life workloads with cassandra-stress is hard - Blog post detailing caveats with cassandra-stress when modeling real workloads.

Cassandra Security / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• Securing Cassandra with Application Level Encryption - Discusses how to do application level data encryption to properly manage secure information in Cassandra.

• LDAP Authenticator for Cassandra (⭐20) - Pluggable authentication implementation for Cassandra, providing a way to authenticate and create users based on a configured LDAP server.

Cassandra Deployment / Cassandra as a Service / Managed Cassandra Based on Proprietary Technology

• tlp-cluster, a tool for launching Cassandra clusters in AWS (⭐17) - Provisioning tool for Cassandra designed for developers looking to both benchmark and test the correctness of Cassandra. It assists with builds and starting instances on AWS.

• Setting Up Cassandra Cluster Through Ansible - Guide detailing how to set up a Cassandra cluster with automation using Ansible.

• Running Cassandra on DC/OS (Mesos) - Blog that shows how to setup DC/OS in the Amazon cloud, how to install Cassandra on a DC/OS cluster, and finally new ways to interact with and Cassandra after it is installed.

Cassandra Deployment / Cassandra Deployment on Docker / Containerized Cassandra

• Docker-Cassandra (⭐214) - Set of scripts and config files to run a Cassandra cluster from Docker.

• Cassandra Docker (⭐8) - Instaclustr public docker image for Cassandra. It contains docker images for Cassandra 3.0 and 3.11.1.

• Cassandra / Elassandra Docker (⭐0) - Cassandra and Elassandra docker images.Cass Operator is maintained by a team at DataStax and it is part of what powers DataStax Astra.

Cassandra Deployment / Cassandra Deployment on Kubernetes / Kubernetized Cassandra

• K8ssandra.io - Kubernetes + Cassandra - K8ssandra provides a production-ready platform for running Cassandra on Kubernetes. This includes automation for operational tasks such as repairs, backups, and monitoring.

• Datastax - Cassandra Kubernetes Operator (⭐245) - Datastax's Cassandra Kubernetes Operator which supports Datastax as well as open source Cassandra containers on Kubernetes.

• CassKop - Cassandra operator for Kubernetes (⭐186) - Kubernetes operator automates the Cassandra operations such as deploying a new rack aware cluster, adding/removing nodes, configuring the C and JVM parameters, upgrading JVM and C versions. Written in Go.

• Rook.io - Cassandra on Kubernetes - Rook is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator, providing the platform, framework, and support for a diverse set of storage solutions to natively integrate with cloud-native environments. They have a special operator for Cassandra amongst other providers.

• Kudo Cassandar Operator (⭐10) - The KUDO Cassandra Operator makes it easy to deploy and manage Cassandra on Kubernetes.

Integrating with Cassandra / Cassandra Deployment on Kubernetes / Kubernetized Cassandra

• Building a Streaming Data Hub with Elasticsearch, Kafka and Cassandra - Blog post detailing how a streaming analytics system on top of open source, big data components can be done.

Libraries / Custom Time Series

• DataStax C# Driver (⭐547) - Modern, feature-rich and highly tunable C# client library for Cassandra (1.2+) and DataStax Enterprise (3.1+) using exclusively Cassandra's binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3.

• DataStax Java Driver (⭐1.3k) - Java client driver for Cassandra.

• DataStax C++ Driver (⭐376) - Modern, feature-rich, and highly tunable C/C++ client library for Cassandra (1.2+) and DataStax Enterprise (3.1+) using exclusively Cassandra's native protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3.

• DataStax Python Driver (⭐1.3k) - Modern, feature-rich and highly-tunable Python client library for Cassandra (2.1+) using exclusively Cassandra's binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3.

• DataStax Ruby Driver (⭐227) - Ruby client driver for Cassandra. This driver works exclusively with the Cassandra Query Language version 3 (CQL3) and Cassandra's native protocol.

• DataStax Node.js Driver (⭐1.2k) - Modern, feature-rich and highly tunable Node.js client library for Cassandra (1.2+) and DataStax Enterprise (3.1+) using exclusively Cassandra's binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3.

• DataStax PHP Driver (⭐419) - DataStax PHP Driver for Cassandra.

• Achilles - Achilles is an open source Persistence Manager for Cassandra,with the features like Advanced bean mapping (compound primary key, composite partition key, timeUUID, ect),Native collections and map support,and so.

• phpcassa (⭐250) - PHP client library for Cassandra.

• Caffinitas - Caffinitas is an advanced object mapper for Cassandra which has been especially designed to work with Datastax Java Driver 2.1+ against Cassandra 2.1, 2.0 or 1.2.

• Spring Data for Cassandra - Spring Data for Cassandra offers a familiar interface to those who have used other Spring Data modules in the past.

Integrating with Cassandra / Spark

• DataStax Spark Cassandra Connector (⭐1.9k) - Library that lets you expose Cassandra tables as Spark RDDs, write Spark RDDs to Cassandra tables, and execute arbitrary CQL queries in your Spark applications.

Timeseries Databases / Custom Time Series

• Newts - Time-series data store based on Cassandra.

• Hawkular.org - Time series / distributed tracing database powered by Cassandra by Redhat.

Miscellaneous / Custom Time Series

• Apache/Usergrid (⭐998) - Open source Backend as a Service (BaaS) on Cassandra, Elasticsearch with client SDKs for iOS/Android/.NET/Java.

Tools / Custom Time Series

• Hackolade - Visual data modeling tool for NoSQL databases and stuctures like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Graph DBs, JSON, APIs.

• Datastax - Management API for Cassandra (⭐55) - The Management API is a sidecar service layer that attempts to build a well supported set of operational actions on Cassandra® nodes that can be administered centrally.

• Ansible-Galaxy: Cassandra GitHub (⭐16) - Collection called cassandra that aims at providing all Ansible modules allowed to interact with Cassandra.

• RazorSQL - Multi DB Manager Tool - Multi-db tool for Linux, Mac, and Windows that works with Cassandra.

• Cassandra Reaper - Automated repairs for Cassandra. Supports all versions.

• cstar perf (⭐71) - Cassandra performance testing platform.

• Spark Cassandra Stress (⭐26) - Tool for testing the DataStax Spark Connector against Cassandra or DSE.

• Cassalog (⭐14) - Cassalog is a schema change management library and tool for Cassandra that can be used with applications running on the JVM.

• Cassandra-web - Web interface for Cassandra.

• tlp-cluster - Provisioning tool for Cassandra designed for developers looking to benchmark and test Cassandra. It assists with builds and starting instances on AWS.

• Helenos (⭐163) - Free web based environment that simplifies a data exploring & schema management with Cassandra database.

• Cassandra-Migration (⭐52) - Cassandra / DataStax Enterprise database migration (schema evolution) library.

• Instaclustr Kerberos plugin (⭐5) - GSSAPI authentication provider for Cassandra.

Open Source Applications / Custom Time Series

• Cassandra Cluster Admin (⭐207) - Cassandra Cluster Admin is a GUI tool to help people administrate their Cassandra cluster.

• CCM: Cassandra Cluster Manager) (⭐1.2k) - Script/library to create, launch and remove an Cassandra cluster on localhost.

• CStar (⭐250) - Cassandra cluster orchestration tool for the command line.

Logging /Metrics / Custom Time Series

• Metrics Collector for Cassandra (⭐92) - Metric collection and Dashboards for Cassandra (2.2, 3.0, 3.11, 4.0) clusters. Comes with dashboards for Graphana.

• Cassandra Log Tools (⭐8) - Simple scripts for working with Cassandra logs.

• ctop (⭐2) - Very simple console tool for monitoring column families read/write activities at remote cassandra host.

Documentation / Custom Time Series

• Cassandra Documentation - Definitive documentation for all published versions.

Communities / Custom Time Series

• Cassandra Users Mailing List

• Cassandra Developers Mailing List

• Cassandra Commits Mailing List

Blogs / Custom Time Series

• Datastax - DataStax, Inc. is a data management company that provides commercial support, software, and cloud database-as-a-service based on Cassandra.

• Codecentric: Cassandra - Codecentric is an IT consulting company, these are their blog posts surrounding the topic of Cassandra.

• Pythian: Cassandra - Pythian provides data and cloud-related services. The company provides services for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra and other databases and their supporting infrastructure.

• Instaclustr - Managed and supported open source solutions for Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch & Redis.

• OpenCredo:Cassandra - OpenCredo is a consulting company that helps clients make informed decisions around cloud native and open source technologies, as well as public cloud services.

• DOAN DuyHai's Blog: Cassandra - Duyhai Doan is a freelance big data and cloud architect who values sharing knowledge and contributing to the technology community.

• Amy Tobert - Amy Tobert is a full-stack engineer & leader with passion for sustainable systems and people-centered leadership. Her blog details different Cassandra deployments amont other topics.

• Christopher Batey: Cassandra - Christopher Batey is a software engineer of over 15 years and is a primary contributor to Akka and occasional contributor to Cassandra.

• Distributed Bytes: Cassandra - Tim Ojo is the creator of Distributed Bytes and software engineer at Capital one. These are a collection of his posts surrounding the topic of Cassandra.

• Ryan Svilha - Ryan Svilha is a principle engineer at DataStax. His blog posts covers topics surround Cassandra and associated tools.

• Anant - Anant builds and manages business platforms of which they connect customer experiences and information systems with real-time data platforms.

Videos / Custom Time Series

• Monitoring Cassandra: Don't Miss a Thing (Alain Rodriguez, The Last Pickle) | C* Summit 2016 - Talk given by Alain Rodriguez, Consultant at The Last Pickle, discussing what to monitor in Cassandra, how, and why.

• Cassandra.Lunch (⭐6) - Collection of all past Cassandra.Lunch webinars including videos, slides, and Blog posts surrounding all topics Cassandra.

Slides / Custom Time Series

• HAPI Cassandra (⭐5) - Simple REST API with hapi Node.js framework on top of a Cassandra database.

4. Awesome Dotnet Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Tools

• SmartCode (⭐559) – SmartCode= IDataSource -> IBuildTask -> IOutput => Build Everything!!! (Including [Code generator])

5. Free for Dev

Privacy Management

• Osano - Consent management and compliance platform with everything from GDPR representation to cookie banners. The free tier offers basic features.

• Iubenda - Privacy and cookie policies and consent management. The free tier offers limited privacy and cookie policy as well as cookie banners.

• Cookiefirst - Cookie banners, auditing, and multi-language consent management solution. The free tier offers a one-time scan and a single banner.

• Ketch - Consent management and privacy framework tool. The free tier offers most features with a limited visitor count.

6. Awesome Jupyter

Visualization

• lux (⭐5.1k) - Recommends a set of visualizations whenever a dataframe is printed in a notebook.

7. Awesome Vue

Components & Libraries / Utilities

• vue-next-rx (⭐32) - Complete RxJS integration for Vue.js. (Update of vue-rx)

8. Awesome Datascience

Datasets / Book Deals (Affiliated) 🛍

• The official portal for European data

9. Awesome Microservices

Go / Erlang

• go-zero (⭐27k) - A web and rpc distributed system development framework.

10. Awesome Wagtail

Apps / Blogging/news

• wagtail_blog - A WordPress-like blog app implemented in Wagtail.

Tools / Templates & Starter Kits

• wagtail-webpack-dokku (⭐13) - A template with Wagtail, Webpack using django-webpack-loader, Bootstrap 5, production ready for Dokku.

• CodeRed CMS (⭐650) - a professionally supported WordPress alternative for building marketing websites. Create pages, blogs, forms, and every Bootstrap 4 component in the wagtail admin out-of-the-box! Learn more or watch the lightning talk.

Open-source sites / Lists

• WesternFriend (⭐51) - community website with directory, ecommerce, and online subscription

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