This is a safe environment to learn about (lean) startup strategies and techniques based on peer exchange. Most startups fail not because they fail to execute and build their product, but because they fail to build a viable business around it. Startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Imagine if there was a systematic way to do exactly this: validate your riskiest startup assumptions. Well, now there is, and this is what this group …

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Frankfurt Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Frankfurt to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.