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Offtopic: My first book "High performance in-memory computing with Apache Ignite" has been released and available at http://leanpub.com/ignite . This post is my review of the Packt Publishing book Cassandra High Availability by Robbie Strickland. As the main title suggest. The book has almost 186 pages covering 9 chapters and must read for Cassandra users. Chapter 1: Cassandra's approach to High Availability The initial chapter of Cassandra High Availability cover some architectural design such as Monolithic Architecture, Master slave Architecture and the Cassandra's approach to achieve high availability. Most of all modern software system requires a non functional requirements such as High availability. In this chapter author briefly describe why RDBMS is the single point of failure and is not suitable for horizontal scaling, also the drawback of the Master Slave architecture. In the next few section Author describe the Cassandra's architecture and it's