From the description:
Apache Cassandra Project Chair, Jonathan Ellis, looks at all the great improvements in Cassandra 1.2, including Vnodes, Parallel Leveled Compaction, Collections, Atomic Batches and CQL3.
There is only so much you can cover in an hour but Jonathan did a good job of hitting the high points of virtual nodes (rebuild failed drives/nodes faster), atomic batches (fewer requirements on clients, new default btw), CQL improvements, and tracing.
Enough to make you interested in running (not watching) the examples plus your own.
The slides: http://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/college-credit-whats-new-in-apache-cassandra-12
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