Technical
Saturday 30th April 2016 by Instaclustr
One question we often get from prospective customers is “Can you migrate my existing Cassandra cluster to Instaclustr without any downtime?”. The answer to that is, of course, “YES!”. We have done this on numerous occasions now. This blog gives a brief walk-through of the process we follow to achieve that migration. Overview This procedure […]
Feature Releases
Saturday 30th April 2016 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr is pleased to announce immediate available for a new “production-tiny” node size, starting at $250 / month on-demand. The production-tiny size is based on the AWS m4.large instance size (2 CPU, 8GB RAM) with 250GB of attached EBS. The production-tiny size is the entry level into our production size offerings with full production SLAs […]
Team
Friday 29th April 2016 by Instaclustr
Name Aleks Lubiejewski (www.linkedin.com/in/alekslubiejewski) Role VP Consulting & Security. My role here is two-fold. Firstly, I run the consulting business for Instaclustr, responsible for planning and delivering our consulting strategy, defining our processes, looking after the team and ensuring we hit our revenue targets. Secondly, I look after our internal security program, reviewing our implementation […]
Technical
Friday 22nd April 2016 by Instaclustr
Introduction There are many getting started resources available for you so you can better understand Cassandra. We recommend you understand a bit about Cassandra before trialling our platform so you can get the full benefit of the trial. Create your cluster The “provision your cluster” console lets you choose a number of things for your cluster. […]Popular Technical — Cassandra Technical — Spark
Thursday 21st April 2016 by Adam Zegelin
Context In my previous multi Data Center blog post ‘Multi data center Apache Spark and Apache Cassandra benchmark’, I compared the performance and stability of running Spark and Cassandra collocated on the same Data Center (DC), versus running a second DC that is aimed towards analytic jobs with Spark. This gives some breathing space to […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Wednesday 20th April 2016 by Instaclustr
This article is a discussion about how we overcame the ‘failed-to-reset-stream’ problem in AWS’ TransferManager while doing backups in Cassandra. Why would you want to use backups with Cassandra anyway? Cassandra is designed to be resilient to failure. Nodes can transition between up and down and it will still perform as if it were nobody’s […]
Feature Releases
Tuesday 12th April 2016 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr is happy to announce that you can now immediately provision all Instaclustr services in the AWS Frankfurt data center. Instaclustr’s management system is designed to support all AWS regions. However, the AWS Frankfurt data center was not available when we did our initial set up. We have now configured and tested our system with […]