When I started at DataStax 11 months ago, I was a total Cassandra newb. Sure, I'd been writing code for a number of years (with most of the last 10 years spent in the world of .NET), but the applications I was building were typically built ...

After spending some time writing the KillrVideo app and ASP.NET Identity persistence for Cassandra, one thing became glaringly obvious to me--I really missed having a micro-ORM. I spent a lot of time writing boilerplate mapping code, taking rows ...