Developer Newsletter: Reactive Spring Application with Cassandra

If you’re a Java developer who uses the Spring ecosystem, you’ve probably seen the Spring Pet Clinic. Our example of the week is a new reactive implementation of the Pet Clinic backend that uses Spring WebFlux and Cassandra (via DataStax Astra). Here are a few resources to get you started:

Demo of the Spring Reactive App (YouTube)

• Updated Spring skills page now contains hands-on learning scenarios for the reactive app
• DataStax-Examples/Spring-petclinic-reactive (GitHub repo)

The new workshop on October 14 & 15 will guide you through building this app yourself. 

Upcoming Events 

• October 6: Workshop: Building a Realtime Event Driven API with Kafka and Cassandra
• October 7 & 8: Workshop: Building CRUD applications on Cassandra with Python and NodeJS
• October 12: Docker Learning Path (week 2 of a 4 week course - but you are free to join us at any time)
• October 14 & 15: Workshop: Build Reactive Java Applications with Spring

Community Highlights from Cassandra.Link

• Seattle Cassandra Users: Casquatch: An OSS Java Abstraction Layer for Cassandra
• Offline Cassandra log analysis with cassandra.vision
• Implementing Cassandra’s Gossip Protocol 

Notable Software Releases

• Spark Cassandra Connector 3.0.0
• Stargate: Open Source API Framework for Data

Have a news item or an article to share? You can reach us at: developer@datastax.com | @DataStaxDevs.