Padraig O'Sullivan - Building a Small Cassandra Cluster for Testing and Development

"For college, I was playing with cassandra and thought I would document my experience in setting up a small cassandra cluster for playing around with. For this article, I actually used virtual machines (3 of them). I am assuming that we have a fresh ubuntu installation on each node. I'm also assuming static IP addresses so the /etc/hosts file on each node will have the following entries ("