Blog — February 2016

Team

Interning as a software developer with Instaclustr

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

Running CoreOS official AMIs with internal storage on AWS

Thursday 11th February 2016 by Alex Lourie

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

Connecting to a Cassandra cluster using TLS/SSL

Monday 8th February 2016 by Justin Cameron

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...

Technical Technical — Cassandra

Big Data Challenge

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...

Technical

Instaclustr Engineering & Support Team 2015 Review

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...

Technical — Cassandra

Instaclustr Webinar: Japanese Cassandra Community

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...

Team

Instaclustr Insights: Meet Brooke Jensen

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...