1) The document discusses Cassandra tools including the DataStax CQL drivers and the new DevCenter visual query tool.
2) The CQL drivers provide an asynchronous architecture based on Netty, support prepared statements, automatic failover, and tunable policies.
3) DevCenter is a free visual query tool that can be used by developers and admins for creating and running CQL queries and commands against Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. It is intended to be a smarter and friendlier alternative to cqlsh.