Patrick McFadin

Patrick McFadin

Patrick McFadin is regarded as one of the leading experts of Apache Cassandra and data modeling techniques. As the Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra for DataStax, he has helped build some of the largest deployments in the world. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons, an education services company. There, he spoke often on Web Application design and performance.
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A world without software licenses

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A world without software licenses


  • Thursday, October 6, 2016
  • By Patrick McFadin

I’ve been in this industry long enough to hear predictions of the future and witness them fail or succeed. Remember client-server computing? Yeah. They can be fun or insightful about macro trends, but each one has a probability of failure. I th...