Merge pull request #644 from chapj2001/dependency-update

Update readme to match deprecation notice on astyanax/wiki

Author: chapj2001

Readme.markdown

@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 Astyanax
 ========
-Astyanax is a high level Java client for [Apache Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org).
-Apache Cassandra is a highly available column oriented database.
 
-Astyanax is currently in use at [Netflix](http://movies.netflix.com), but is being [retired](https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/astyanax-retiring-an-old-friend-6cca1de9ac4). 
-Astyanax is no longer under active development, but may receive dependency updates to ease migration away from Astyanax.
+Deprecation
+-----------
+Astyanax has been [retired](https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/astyanax-retiring-an-old-friend-6cca1de9ac4) and is no 
+longer under active development but may receive dependency updates to ease migration away from Astyanax.
 
 In place of Astyanax consider using [DataStax Java Driver for Apache Cassandra](https://github.com/datastax/java-driver) 
-which is under active development and encapsulates a lot of lessons learned from Astyanax. The DataStax driver supports 
-only CQL protocol because Apache Cassandra 4.x drops the Thrift protocol. Switching to the DataStax driver requires 
-using CQL queries, but you'll still be able to access legacy column families via the CQL "with compact storage" option. 
+which is under active development and encapsulates a lot of lessons learned from Astyanax. Since the DataStax driver 
+supports only CQL protocol (because Apache Cassandra 4.x will drop the Thrift protocol), you’ll have to update all of 
+your Thrift-based queries to CQL queries.
+                                                                                           
+You have the option to continue accessing legacy column families via the CQL “with compact storage” option. However in 
+most (all?) use cases the legacy compact storage option actually takes more space than the new default CQL storage 
+option, so you’re really better off also migrating your data to the new default storage option.
 
 This version of Astyanax shades its dependency on cassandra-all so you can optionally select any version 
 of cassandra-unit you like for unit/integration testing with different versions of Cassandra. When upgrading to this 
-verion of Astyanax you may need to:
+version of Astyanax you may need to:
 * Explicitly add any cassandra-all transitive dependencies you previously silently depended on via Astayanax transitives.
 * If you were using internal features of Astyanax that (unintentionally) publicly exposed cassandra-all classes, 
 you must either:
@@ -22,6 +26,38 @@ you must either:
     * Option C: Switch your objects from "org.apache.cassandra" to the shaded "com.netflix.astyanax.shaded.org.apache.cassandra"
      package Astyanax now depends on.
 
+Overview
+--------
+Astyanax is a high level Java client for [Apache Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org).
+Apache Cassandra is a highly available column oriented database.
+
+Features
+--------
+A quick overview can be found at the [Netflix Tech Blog](http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/01/announcing-astyanax.html). Some features provided by this client:
+
+* High level, simple object oriented interface to Cassandra.
+* Fail-over behavior on the client side.
+* Connection pool abstraction.  Implementation of a round robin connection pool.
+* Monitoring abstraction to get event notification from the connection pool. 
+* Complete encapsulation of the underlying Thrift API and structs.
+* Automatic retry of downed hosts.
+* Automatic discovery of additional hosts in the cluster.
+* Suspension of hosts for a short period of time after several timeouts.
+* Annotations to simplify use of composite columns.
+
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+Detailed documentation of Astyanax's features and usage can be found on the [wiki](https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki) and the [getting started guide](https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki/Getting-Started).
+
+IntelliJ: currently (June 2018) IntelliJ has a bug which renders an "unfound" error for packages relocated via another 
+module in the same project (e.g. shaded classes from astyanax-cassandra-all-shaded). 
+This affects *only* the Astyanax project itself within IntelliJ; Astyanax still builds perfectly fine via Gradle. 
+Astyanax users are unaffected. For more details see:
+
+* [https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/issues/264](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/issues/264) 
+* [https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-163411](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-163411)
+
 Artifacts
 -------------------------------
 
@@ -50,32 +86,6 @@ Optional artifacts
 |com.netflix.astyanax|astyanax-entity-mapper||
 |com.netflix.astyanax|astyanax-recipes|Optional implementations of some common patterns. Use at your own risk; some of these are popular but not well-suite for Cassandra for many use cases (looking at you, AllRowsReader).|
 
-Features
---------
-A quick overview can be found at the [Netflix Tech Blog](http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/01/announcing-astyanax.html). Some features provided by this client:
-
-* High level, simple object oriented interface to Cassandra.
-* Fail-over behavior on the client side.
-* Connection pool abstraction.  Implementation of a round robin connection pool.
-* Monitoring abstraction to get event notification from the connection pool. 
-* Complete encapsulation of the underlying Thrift API and structs.
-* Automatic retry of downed hosts.
-* Automatic discovery of additional hosts in the cluster.
-* Suspension of hosts for a short period of time after several timeouts.
-* Annotations to simplify use of composite columns.
-
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Detailed documentation of Astyanax's features and usage can be found on the [wiki](https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki) and the [getting started guide](https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki/Getting-Started).
-
-IntelliJ: currently (June 2018) IntelliJ has a bug which renders an "unfound" error for packages relocated via another 
-module in the same project (e.g. shaded classes from astyanax-cassandra-all-shaded). 
-This affects *only* the Astyanax project itself within IntelliJ; Astyanax still builds perfectly fine via Gradle. 
-Astyanax users are unaffected. For more details see:
-
-* [https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/issues/264](https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/issues/264) 
-* [https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-163411](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-163411)
 
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