DataStax, the company behind the massively scalable, highly available, cloud-native NoSQL data platform built on Apache Cassandra, has announced the general availability of DataStax Astra, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for Apache Cassandra applications, simplifying cloud-native Cassandra application development. We sat down with Ed Anuff, Chief Product Officer of DataStax to discuss the evolution of database-as-a-service (DBaaS) and the newly announces Astra.