diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 40bf056..ecccc8a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
 language: python
 python:
-- 2.6
 - 2.7
 - pypy
-- 3.2
 - 3.3
 - 3.4
 install:
-- if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '2.6' ]]; then pip install unittest2; fi
 - pip install -r requirements.txt -r test-requirements.txt
 script: nosetests
 after_success:
@@ -22,3 +19,5 @@ deploy:
     python: 2.7
     tags: true
     all_branches: true
+services:
+  - cassandra
diff --git a/docs/api.rst b/docs/api.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..307c475
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/api.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+.. automodule:: sprockets.clients.cassandra
+   :members:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fd63dd2..bbaab97 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-# Add dependencies that are required to install your package.  These will
-# be passed into `setup` as the `install_requires` keyword.
-#
+blist==1.3.6
+cassandra-driver==2.5.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fdc9edc..db64e44 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,51 +2,62 @@
 import codecs
 import sys
 
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+import setuptools
 
-import sprockets.clients.cassandra
+def read_requirements_file(req_name):
+    requirements = []
+    try:
+        with codecs.open(req_name, encoding='utf-8') as req_file:
+            for req_line in req_file:
+                if '#' in req_line:
+                    req_line = req_line[0:req_line.find('#')].strip()
+                if req_line:
+                    requirements.append(req_line.strip())
+    except IOError:
+        pass
+    return requirements
 
 
-def read_requirements_file(filename):
-    """Read pip-formatted requirements from a file."""
-    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
-        return [line.strip() for line in f.readlines()
-                if not line.startswith('#')]
+install_requires = read_requirements_file('requirements.txt')
+setup_requires = read_requirements_file('setup-requirements.txt')
+tests_require = read_requirements_file('test-requirements.txt')
 
-requirements = read_requirements_file('requirements.txt')
-test_requirements = read_requirements_file('test-requirements.txt')
-if sys.version_info < (3, ):
-    requirements.append('six>=1.7,<2.0')
-    test_requirements.append('mock>=1.0.1,<2.0')
-if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
-    test_requirements.append('unittest2==0.5.1')
 
-setup(
+setuptools.setup(
     name='sprockets.clients.cassandra',
-    description='Base functioanlity for accessing/modifying data in Cassandra',
-    version=sprockets.clients.cassandra.__version__,
-    packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests', 'tests.*']),
-    test_suite='nose.collector',
-    include_package_data=True,
+    version='0.0.0',
+    description='Base functionality for accessing/modifying data in Cassandra',
     long_description=codecs.open('README.rst', encoding='utf-8').read(),
-    install_requires=requirements,
-    tests_require=test_requirements,
-    author='AWeber Communications, Inc.',
+    url='https://github.com/sprockets/sprockets.clients.cassandra.git',
+    author='AWeber Communications',
     author_email='api@aweber.com',
-    url='https://github.com/aweber/sprockets.clients.cassandra',
+    license=codecs.open('LICENSE', encoding='utf-8').read(),
     classifiers=[
-        'Development Status :: 1 - Planning',
+        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
         'Intended Audience :: Developers',
         'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
         'Natural Language :: English',
         'Operating System :: OS Independent',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules'
     ],
-)
+    packages=['sprockets',
+              'sprockets.clients',
+              'sprockets.clients.cassandra'],
+    package_data={'': ['LICENSE', 'README.md']},
+    include_package_data=True,
+    namespace_packages=['sprockets',
+                        'sprockets.clients'],
+    install_requires=install_requires,
+    setup_requires=setup_requires,
+    tests_require=tests_require,
+    test_suite='nose.collector',
+    zip_safe=False)
diff --git a/sprockets.clients.cassandra/__init__.py b/sprockets.clients.cassandra/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 9afb70c..0000000
--- a/sprockets.clients.cassandra/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-version_info = (0, 0, 0)
-__version__ = '.'.join(str(v) for v in version_info[:3])
diff --git a/sprockets/__init__.py b/sprockets/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de40ea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sprockets/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
diff --git a/sprockets/clients/__init__.py b/sprockets/clients/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de40ea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sprockets/clients/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
diff --git a/sprockets/clients/cassandra/__init__.py b/sprockets/clients/cassandra/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c8b2ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sprockets/clients/cassandra/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+"""
+clients.cassandra
+=================
+
+Base functionality for accessing/modifying data in Cassandra.
+
+"""
+import os
+import socket
+
+from cassandra.cluster import Cluster
+from tornado.concurrent import Future
+from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
+
+try:
+    from urllib.parse import urlsplit
+except:
+    from urlparse import urlsplit
+
+version_info = (0, 0, 0)
+__version__ = '.'.join(str(v) for v in version_info)
+
+DEFAULT_URI = 'cassandra://localhost'
+
+
+class CassandraConnection(object):
+    """Maintain a connection to a Cassandra cluster.
+
+    The Sprockets Cassandra client handles provides the glue
+    needed to join the Tornado async I/O module with the native
+    python async I/O used in the Cassandra driver. The
+    constructor of the function will grab the current handle
+    to the underlying Tornado I/O loop so that a Tornado future
+    result can be returned to the host application.
+
+    Configuration parameters for the module are obtained from
+    environment variables. Currently, the only variable is
+    ``CASSANDRA_URI``, which takes the format "cassandra://hostname".
+    If not located, the hostname defaults to localhost.
+
+    .. note::
+
+        The hostname in the ``CASSANDRA_URI`` will be resolved
+        to a list of IP addresses that will be passed to the
+        Cassandra driver as the contact points.
+
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, ioloop=None):
+        self._config = self._get_cassandra_config()
+        self._cluster = Cluster(self._config['contact_points'])
+        self._session = self._cluster.connect()
+        self._ioloop = IOLoop.current()
+
+    def _get_cassandra_config(self):
+        """Retrieve a dict containing Cassandra client config params."""
+        config = {}
+        parts = urlsplit(os.environ.get('CASSANDRA_URI', DEFAULT_URI))
+        if parts.scheme != 'cassandra':
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                'CASSANDRA_URI scheme is not "cassandra://"!')
+
+        _, _, ip_addresses = socket.gethostbyname_ex(parts.hostname)
+        if not ip_addresses:
+            raise RuntimeError('Unable to find Cassandra in DNS!')
+
+        config['contact_points'] = ip_addresses
+        return config
+
+    def set_keyspace(self, keyspace):
+        """Set the keyspace used by the connection."""
+        self._session.set_keyspace(keyspace)
+
+    def shutdown(self):
+        """Shutdown the connection to the Cassandra cluster."""
+        self._cluster.shutdown()
+        self._session = None
+        self._cluster = None
+
+    def execute(self, query, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Asynchronously execute the specified CQL query.
+
+        The execute command also takes optional parameters and trace
+        keyword arguments. See cassandra-python documentation for
+        definition of those parameters.
+        """
+
+        tornado_future = Future()
+        cassandra_future = self._session.execute_async(
+            query, *args, **kwargs)
+        self._ioloop.add_callback(
+            self._callback, cassandra_future, tornado_future)
+        return tornado_future
+
+    def _callback(self, cassandra_future, tornado_future):
+        """Cassandra async I/O loop callback handler."""
+        try:
+            result = cassandra_future.result()
+        except Exception as exc:
+            return tornado_future.set_exception(exc)
+        tornado_future.set_result(result)
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 28aec1f..952e16a 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@
 # minimize breakage to our dev environment.
 coveralls>=0.4,<1.0
 nose>=1.3.1,<2.0.0
-test-helpers>=1.5.1,<2.0.0
+tornado>=3.0.0,<4.0.0
diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb83ff5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+"""
+Tests for the sprockets.clients.cassandra package
+
+"""
+import os
+import socket
+import time
+
+from cassandra.cluster import Cluster
+from cassandra.protocol import SyntaxException
+from tornado.testing import AsyncTestCase, gen_test
+
+from sprockets.clients.cassandra import CassandraConnection
+
+
+class TestCassandraConnectionClass(AsyncTestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(TestCassandraConnectionClass, self).setUp()
+        self.cluster = Cluster(self.find_cassandra())
+        self.session = self.cluster.connect()
+        self.keyspace = 'sprocketstest{0}'.format(int(time.time()*10000))
+        self.create_fixtures()
+        self.connection = CassandraConnection()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        super(TestCassandraConnectionClass, self).tearDown()
+        self.session.execute("DROP KEYSPACE {0}".format(self.keyspace))
+        self.connection.shutdown()
+
+    def find_cassandra(self):
+        uri = os.environ.get('CASSANDRA_URI', 'cassandra://localhost')
+        hostname = uri[12:]
+        _, _, ips = socket.gethostbyname_ex(hostname)
+        return ips
+
+    def create_fixtures(self):
+        self.session.execute(
+            "CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT EXISTS {0} WITH REPLICATION = "
+            "{{'class': 'SimpleStrategy', "
+            "'replication_factor': 1}}".format(self.keyspace))
+        self.session.execute("USE {0}".format(self.keyspace))
+        self.session.execute(
+            "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS names (name text PRIMARY KEY)")
+        self.session.execute(
+            "INSERT INTO names (name) VALUES ('Peabody')")
+
+    @gen_test
+    def test_several_queries(self):
+        futures = []
+        count = 100
+        for i in range(count):
+            futures.append(self.connection.execute(
+                "SELECT name FROM {0}.names".format(self.keyspace)))
+        results = 0
+        for future in futures:
+            yield future
+            results += 1
+        self.assertEqual(count, results)
+
+    @gen_test
+    def test_bad_query(self):
+        with self.assertRaises(SyntaxException):
+            yield self.connection.execute('goobletygook')
+
+    @gen_test
+    def test_set_keyspace(self):
+        self.connection.set_keyspace(self.keyspace)
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b13789..0000000
--- a/tests/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/tests/acceptance/__init__.py b/tests/acceptance/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b13789..0000000
--- a/tests/acceptance/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/tests/integration/__init__.py b/tests/integration/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b13789..0000000
--- a/tests/integration/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/tests/unit/__init__.py b/tests/unit/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b13789..0000000
--- a/tests/unit/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_example.py b/tests/unit/test_example.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 8319b63..0000000
--- a/tests/unit/test_example.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-from test_helpers import bases
-from test_helpers.compat import mock
-from test_helpers.mixins import patch_mixin
-
-
-class App(object):
-    """Quick example app for testing."""
-
-    def first(self, fail):
-        """Example method under test."""
-        self.do_db_lookup('random')
-        if fail:
-            raise AttributeError
-
-    def do_db_lookup(self, name):
-        """Method that reaches out to a database."""
-        raise NotImplementedError
-
-
-class _BaseFirstTestCase(patch_mixin.PatchMixin, bases.BaseTest):
-    """Example base test showing current test style."""
-
-    patch_prefix = 'tests.unit.test_example'
-
-    @classmethod
-    def configure(cls):
-        cls.app = App()
-
-        cls.do_db_lookup = cls.create_patch('App.do_db_lookup')
-
-    @classmethod
-    def execute(cls):
-        try:
-            cls.app.first(cls.fail)
-        except AttributeError as exc:
-            cls.exception = exc
-
-    def should_do_db_lookup(self):
-        self.do_db_lookup.assert_called_once_with(mock.ANY)
-
-
-class WhenFirstAppSuccessful(_BaseFirstTestCase):
-
-    @classmethod
-    def configure(cls):
-        cls.fail = False
-        super(WhenFirstAppSuccessful, cls).configure()
-
-
-class WhenFirstAppFails(_BaseFirstTestCase):
-
-    @classmethod
-    def configure(cls):
-        cls.fail = True
-        super(WhenFirstAppFails, cls).configure()
-
-    def should_raise_AttributeError(self):
-        self.assertIsInstance(self.exception, AttributeError)
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 3a25764..968d11c 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,16 +1,12 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py26,py27,py32,py33,py34
+envlist = py27,py33,py34
 
 [testenv]
 commands = nosetests []
-deps = -rtest-requirements.txt
+deps =  -rrequirements.txt
+        -rtest-requirements.txt
 
 [testenv:py27]
 deps =
 	mock>=1.0.1,<2.0
 	{[testenv]deps}
-
-[testenv:py26]
-deps =
-	unittest2==0.5.1
-	{[testenv:py27]deps}