Team
Friday 12th February 2016 by Instaclustr
My name is Danyang Li, a second-year master's degree student, majoring in Computing. In October 2015, I started to look for internship programs that would give me a platform to leverage my knowledge and skills gained in the classroom, while enabling me to work in a new and unfamiliar environment for a more holistic learning experience.
Technical
Thursday 11th February 2016 by Adam Zegelin
At Instaclustr, we host some of our customers' nodes on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Depending on customer's system requirements, we may deploy multiple different instances on AWS: EBS-backed nodes and instance-store nodes.Popular Technical — Cassandra Technical
Monday 8th February 2016 by Adam Zegelin
Overview Making connections to a Cassandra cluster that uses SSL can be a little tricker than usual, however properly securing your client connections with SSL is important, especially if you are connecting to your cluster via the Internet or an untrusted network. Pre-requisites Before we get started you’ll first need to install the Java Cryptography Extensions. […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Sunday 7th February 2016 by Instaclustr
The Big Data Challenge Avoiding the challenges and pitfalls of Apache Cassandra implementation Executive summary Big Data is a different problem that requires a different data storage and management solution. It’s data that is too big, moves too fast, and doesn’t fit standard relational data structure. Apache Cassandra has emerged as a winning solution for […]Technical
Thursday 4th February 2016 by Ben Slater
2015 was a huge year for Instaclustr from just about every perspective – we grew from something like 50 nodes under management to over 500, from low double digit customers to hundreds now in production and our team grew from 5 engineers to nearing on 30. Of course, this kind of growth has required (and […]
Technical — Cassandra
Thursday 4th February 2016 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr Webinar for the Japanese Cassandra Community Details Webinar (Online Seminar) for the Cassandra Community in Japan. Presenter Ben Bromhead, CTO and co-founder of Instaclustr and Apache Cassandra MVP. Date & Time 10:30AM-12:00PM February 2016, JST. Cost Free with registration of attendance This will be the first time the webinar has been held in Japan […]
Team
Tuesday 2nd February 2016 by Instaclustr
Name Brooke Jensen @_brookejensen https://au.linkedin.com/in/brookejensen1 Role VP Technical Operations & Customer Services. I work on all our internal applications such as provisioning, monitoring and console, as well as providing on call support and consulting to our customers. Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? I started in IT right after I […]