Cassandra: tuning the JVM for read heavy workloads : Developers @ SHIFT

We recently completed a very successful round of Cassandra tuning here at SHIFT. This post will cover one of the most impactful adjustments we made, which was to the JVM garbage collection settings. I’ll be discussing how the JVM garbage collector works, how it was affecting our cluster performance, the adjustments we made, their effects, the reasoning behind them, and share the tools and techniqu