We introduced sstableloader back in 0.8.1, in order to do bulk loading data into Cassandra. When it was first introduced, we wrote a blog post about its usage along with generating SSTable to bulk load. Now, Cassandra version 2.1.0 was released, and bulk loading has been evolved since the old blog post. Let's see how the change makes our life easier than before. What's changed? Specific changes ar