Blog — June 2018

Technical Technical — Cassandra

Apache Cassandra LDAP Authentication

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...

Technical Technical — Kafka

Apache Kafka “Kongo” 6.2 - Production Kongo on Instaclustr

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...

Technical

Apache Kafka “Kongo” 6.1 - Production Kongo on Instaclustr

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...

Technical — Kafka

General Availability - Managed Apache 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...

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Query Idempotence in GoCql driver

Tuesday 26th June 2018 by Alex Lourie

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...

Technical Technical — Kafka

Apache Kafka "Kongo" 5.3: Kongo Streams Example

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...