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 Minimal requires for Qakka in one region or data center are:
 
-* One or more computers running Java 8 and Tomcat 7 or 8
-* A Cassandra cluster running Cassandra 2.1.x
+* One or more computers running Java 8 and Apache Tomcat 7 or 8
+* A Apache Cassandra cluster running Cassandra 2.1.x
 
 
 ## Qakka Internals
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 Qakka was developed as for this JIRA Issue: [USERGRID-1318](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/USERGRID-1318).
 
 
+## How to build Qakka
+
+Qakka is unreleased software and if you want to use it, you will have to built it. Here are the steps to build Qakka:
+
+You will need Java 8 JDK and Maven 3 to build Qakka. You will also need Cassandra 2.1.x if you want to run the JUnit tests.
+
+* Build the Usergrid "Stack":
+    * Clone the Apache Usergrid repo and run `mvn -DskipTests=true install` in the  `/stack` directory.
+    * This will place the Usergrid jar fies into your local Maven repo so that Qakka can find them.
+    
+* Build Qakka
+    * Clone the Apache Usergrid Qakka repo and run `mvn -DskipTests=true install` in Qakka's directory.
+    
+If you want to run the Qakka JUnit tests, you will need to have Cassandra 2.1.x running on your computer with the default setup (e.g. on port 9160). You can run the tests with `mvn tests`. The tests in Qakka only hit the REST API; there are more Qakka tests in the Usergrid Queue module.
+
+
 ## Qakka Installation
 
 We don't have installation documentation or scripts yet, but here's an overview of what you'll have to do