Blog — March 2018

Technical Popular

Open Source Use Cases In Financial Services

Sunday 25th March 2018 by Ben Slater

Financial services industries such as banking, insurance and capital management have been built on data since they first began. From ancient money lenders with clay tablets to early 20th century clerks with rooms...

Technical — Elasticsearch

Instaclustr Releases Elassandra 5.5

Friday 23rd March 2018 by Instaclustr

Instaclustr is excited to announce our managed service support for Elassandra 5.5, updating our release of Elassandra 2.5 last year. The new release includes: Kibana 5.5 Elassandra 5.5.0.13 (based on Cassandra 3.11.2 and...

Technical — Cassandra

February 2018 Apache Cassandra Releases

Thursday 22nd March 2018 by Kurt Greaves

In February, the Apache Cassandra project issued releases for all currently supported branches of Apache Cassandra. As far as releases go the change list was modest, which shows that we’re seeing fewer bugs...

Technical Technical — Kafka

“Kongo” Part 1 - Apache Kafka: IoT Logistics Streaming Demo Application

Thursday 15th March 2018 by Paul Brebner

What’s a good name to give a demo IoT streaming application dealing with large scale logistics? How about a river… Maybe The “Amazon” application? That’s sort of taken. The Amazon is the longest...