Blogs — October 2016

Technical — Cassandra Feature Releases

Instaclustr Support for OEM Apache Cassandra

Wednesday 26th October 2016 by Doug Stuart

Increasingly software developers are choosing Apache Cassandra as the data store for packaged software products. Typically, this is due to Cassandra’s industry leading levels of availability, reliability and scalability. However, many end customers for these software products, and even the software developers themselves, may have limited or no experience supporting Cassandra in an operational environment. Instaclustr’s Support […]

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Instaclustr and Baffle Partnership

Wednesday 26th October 2016 by Instaclustr

Instaclustr is pleased to announce a partnership with Baffle.io to make Baffle encryption technology available to our customers as part of the Instaclustr Managed Cassandra platform. For Instaclustr, the security of our client’s data is paramount. However, while we take all the steps we can to secure clusters managed by us, the most secure solution for […]

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BATCH: Workflow, Metrics & Use Cases

Tuesday 25th October 2016 by Alwyn Davis

Overview Recently, I needed to work my way through the details of how batch transactions are processed in Cassandra and also how they affect exposed metrics.  This article outlines the workflow of submitting a batch via the Java Cassandra driver and will hopefully be of use to others interested in this process. This article summarises the process […]

Technical — Cassandra Feature Releases

Patched Cassandra 3.7

Wednesday 19th October 2016 by Ben Slater

In the last couple of days, we made the latest Apache Cassandra releases available in production for Instaclustr Managed Cassandra. This is something we do very regularly and normally I wouldn’t be writing a blog post about it. However, this time we’ve taken the unusual step of building our own patched version of Cassandra 3.7 […]

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Instaclustr Synthetic Transaction Monitoring

Monday 17th October 2016 by Ben Slater

Overview One of the challenges we are constantly tackling at Instaclustr is how to effectively monitor clusters, and particularly read and write latency, given the wide variety of use cases that customer use our service for. Our recent introduction of synthetic transaction monitoring adds significantly to our capability to reliably monitor cluster performance regardless of […]

Technical Technical — Cassandra

Demystifying Cassandra’s broadcast_address

Tuesday 11th October 2016 by Instaclustr

When configuring Apache Cassandra to work in a new environment or with a new application or service we sometimes find ourselves asking “What’s the difference between broadcast_address and broadcast_rpc_address again?”. The difference is broadcast_address relates to gossip and node to node communications, whereas broadcast_rpc_address is associated with client connections. Read on for more details. The Cassandra configuration file has a few interdependent properties […]