Aaron Ploetz is a developer advocate at DataStax. He's been a professional software developer since 1997 and has several years of experience working on and leading DevOps teams for startups and Fortune 50 enterprises, including several national retailers. He is a three-time Cassandra MVP, and has worked as an author on the books "Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week" and "Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x."