Technical Popular
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 full of ledgers to modern high-frequency trading, efficiently recording, retrieving and analysing data has been a key competitive advantage for successful financial […]
Technical — Elasticsearch
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 Elasticsearch 5.5) Elassandra gives you the full power of Elasticsearch to search your Cassandra data – without having to build custom integration […]
Technical — Cassandra
Thursday 22nd March 2018 by Adam Zegelin
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 and is overall a good sign. However, there were some major issues addressed that need a specific mention. TTL Issue Firstly, the […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
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 river and has the most water flow, but what’s the 2nd ranking river? The Congo! The Congo is the 2nd biggest river […]