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Explore a technical conference talk that investigates why Cassandra deployments maintain conservative node density despite modern hardware improvements. Learn about the gap between current hardware capabilities and storage practices in Cassandra environments, with detailed analysis of limiting factors and proposed solutions. Discover strategies for optimizing Cassandra's storage engine design, improving data distribution methods, and enhancing garbage collection efficiency to achieve higher storage densities up to 20 terabytes per node. Join speaker Jon Haddad for an in-depth examination of how to better leverage advances in CPU cores, system memory, garbage collection, and disk technology for increased storage capacity in Cassandra deployments.
