{"id":10836,"date":"2014-08-22T08:27:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2014-08-22T08:27:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:27:35","slug":"multi-datacenter-cassandra-on-32-raspberry-pis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10836","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.datastax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cluster_closeup_final-700x461.jpg?resize=560%2C369\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Van Ryswyk and Daniel Chin have just finished building a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">32-node <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datastax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DataStax<\/a> Enterprise cluster running on Raspberry Pis. 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