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+## Overview
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+Cassandra Queue is a cassandra-backed queue for storing time series data.
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+## Table of contents
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+1.  [Installation](#section_1)
+1.  [Authors](#section_2)
+1.  [ License](#section_4)
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+## <a name="section_1"></a>1 Installation
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+It's as simple as gem install cassandra-queue!  You will need a cassandra cluster for this to work.
+Cassandra Queue installs the cassandra client gem, which comes with a cassandra_helper binary, which can be used to start a local cassandra cluster.
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+## <a name="section_2"></a>2 Authors
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+Cassandra Queue was written by the following Ooyala engineer:
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+* Jay Bhat ([jbhat](https://github.com/jbhat))
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+## <a name="section_3"></a>3 License
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+Cassandra Queue is released under [the MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).