Dmitry Kropachev

I see that code uses `time.Now()` everywhere it leads to the problem when you run test during time shift. It would be better to, at least internally, enforce UTC timezone.

Have quick integration tests on CICD

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Run simple integration tests agains scylla on CICD, to make sure no workload is critically broken

`Set` in java notion does not guarantee items ordering, which is essential to all cases where driver stores replicas. To make it explicit we need to move all APIs to...

Set - doesn't guarantee order of elements. When driver works with Nodes, say read replicas from TokenMap, Tablets, calculate replicas, API user should expect that order does matter and preserved....

3.x: Make LWT routing consider dc and rack priority same way it is done for regular queries

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Currently LWT routing relay on `Metadata.getReplicasList`: https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/blob/6a8678fd99950282e265a65ba0b661d23dfc8bdb/driver-core/src/main/java/com/datastax/driver/core/RequestHandler.java#L146-L154 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/blob/6a8678fd99950282e265a65ba0b661d23dfc8bdb/driver-core/src/main/java/com/datastax/driver/core/RequestHandler.java#L98-L132 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/blob/6a8678fd99950282e265a65ba0b661d23dfc8bdb/driver-core/src/main/java/com/datastax/driver/core/Metadata.java#L591-L618 Which does not respect rack or DC prioritization, we need to fix it to priorities nodes same way it is done...

Currently `maxQueueSize` is `256` by default. Problem is that some hosts can have 1 shard, others can have `256` shards. While having cap of `256` pending requests for `1` shard...

4.x: drop support for java 1.8

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Let's drop 1.8 in next minor release. There are some dependency updated that are blocked by it: https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/589 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/581 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/594 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/609 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/612 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/613 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/614 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/615 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/677 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/679 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/684 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/685 https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/pull/697...

In some cases we need to trigger metadata reload and wait it is completed. One of such case is when we pull from cdc table while we reading pages table...