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SPEAKER 2025

Johnny Miller

Chief Architect and Co-Founder, AxonOps

About Talk

Beyond the Command Line: AxonOps Workbench for Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra developers know the struggle: powerful database, limited tooling. While cqlsh serves its purpose, modern development and user experience demands more sophisticated capabilities. AxonOps Workbench addresses these community pain points through an Apache Licensed and fully open-source desktop application built by Cassandra experts who experienced these frustrations firsthand. This talk demonstrates Workbench’s key features through live demos showing real-world scenarios.

We’ll explore this project’s commitment to open-source development: public repositories, transparent roadmaps, and invitation for community collaboration

Join us and help us shape Workbench’s future through your feedback and contributions

TRACK: Data & Bases: Open Source Rocks!

6th Nov 2025 | HALL C | Time:1:00-1:45

About Speaker

Johnny Miller is the co-founder of digitalis.io and AxonOps, where he helps organizations adopt, scale, and operate modern Cloud, Data, and Streaming technologies such as Apache Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and Kubernetes. With over 20 years of hands-on experience in software engineering, he has built deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud architectures, web services, and DevOps. His mission is to design and deliver robust, infrastructure-agnostic data platforms that span architecture, implementation, open-source tooling, and fully managed 24/7 operations.

Johnny has successfully delivered solutions across diverse sectors including government, retail, media, entertainment, and finance. By promoting vendor independence, flexibility, and security, he ensures clients achieve long-term agility and scalability. A passionate advocate for open-source technologies, he contributes to community projects and mentors engineers to foster innovation and operational excellence.