Technical Technical — Cassandra
Friday 29th June 2018 by Instaclustr
We’ve seen an increasing need for LDAP integration into Apache Cassandra, and continually hearing of cases where people have written their own LDAP authenticators for Cassandra. However, if you search around you’ll have a hard time finding one of these implementations, and you’ll likely have to write one yourself, which is no easy feat. So, […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Friday 29th June 2018 by Paul Brebner
In this blog (parts 6.1 and 6.2) we deploy the Kongo IoT application to a production Kafka cluster, using Instraclustr’s Managed Apache Kafka service on AWS. In part 6.1 we explored Kafka cluster creation and how to deploy the Kongo code. Then we revisited the design choices made previously regarding how to best handle the […]
Technical
Friday 29th June 2018 by Paul Brebner
In this blog we deploy the Kongo IoT application to a production Kafka cluster, using Instraclustr’s Managed Apache Kafka service on AWS. We explore Kafka cluster creation and how to deploy the Kongo code. Then we revisit the design choices made previously regarding how to best handle the high consumer fan out of the Kongo […]
Technical — Kafka
Tuesday 26th June 2018 by Ben Slater
Instaclustr announces that our Managed Apache Kafka on the Instaclustr Managed Platform has now reached General Availability with full production SLAs and security controls applied. Apache Kafka adds to Instaclustr’s existing open source offerings of Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark and Elassandra, providing customers the opportunity to use a single managed service provider for a complete […]
Technical
Tuesday 26th June 2018 by Adam Zegelin
We have recently helped to implement a new feature in the gocql driver for Apache Cassandra that allows a user to mark queries as idempotent. In this post we’ll cover what idempotent queries are and how they can be used. Query Idempotence The query is defined as idempotent if the repeated execution would render the same […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Wednesday 20th June 2018 by Paul Brebner
Introduction In the previous blog we tried a simple Kafka Streams application for Cluedo. It relied on a KTable to count the number of people in each room. In this blog, we’ll extend this idea and develop a more complex streams application to keep track of the weight of goods in trucks for our Kongo […]