The PPT that should be displaying on the projector that guides you through the steps of a lan party.

1. Cassandra/NoSQL LAN Party

3. Naturally works in multi-node multi-dc scenarios

4. LAN parties are fun. Remember quake on 10mb?

5. Target Setup

7. Setup Networking

8. Calculate Tokens

9. Startup Cassandra

10. Create Keyspace and Column Family

11. Quick example of read write

12. Party!

14. Each switch connected to other switch by cat5

16. Not C* guru's and spread them as well

17. C* NYC people will help as well

19. It should look like 10.1.0.X/255.0.0.0

20. Count the number of people at your table with laptop (count the laptop already set up)

21. Give each a number 2,3,4... call it N

22. Those people should set to IP 10.1.0.N

23. When done ping 10.1.0.1,10.2.0.1

24. If your using your own gear shut down firewall

25. If pings work wait for next stage

27. Copy that # to cassandra.yaml

28. Set your IP as listen_address

29. Don't start Cassandra yet!

30. Quick check to make sure clock is in sync

32. Have someone give your setup the once over

33. ./bin/cassandra -f

34. All cheer and take a swig as nodes join network!

35. Wait till we gets everyone online

37. with placement_strategy = 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy'

38. and strategy_options={1:3, 2:3, 3:3};

39. use world; create column family data with key_validation_class=UTF8Type

40. AND comparator=UTF8Type

41. AND default_validation_class=UTF8Type;

42. Use world; set Data['bsmith']['name']='bob';

44. USE world;

45. List data;

46. get Data['bsmith'];

47. Disconnect some cables

48. Consistencylevel as [QUORUM,ALL,LOCAL_QUORUM,ONE];

49. Party!