Popular Technical — Cassandra
Wednesday 27th February 2019 by Ben Slater
Last year, Instaclustr upgraded its support for high throughput, compute intensive nodes on top of the AWS platform. This involved switching away from the aging c3 instance types and onto the newer c5d instance type. The new c5d instances provide better performance, better compute power and is better value for money than the c3 instances. […]
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Monday 25th February 2019 by Instaclustr
Name Brooke Thorley Role VP of Customer Success Location Canberra, Australia You recently stepped into the role of VP of Customer Success, what does that entail? As the title implies, a lot of interfacing with our customers! In a nutshell, it means making sure our worldwide customers are getting what they need from Instaclustr, whether […]
Technical — Kafka
Thursday 21st February 2019 by Adam Zegelin
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability of the Kafka REST Proxy as an option when deploying Kafka on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. The Kafka REST Proxy allows applications to connect and communicate with a Kafka cluster over HTTP. The service exposes a set of REST endpoints to which applications can make REST API calls […]
Technical Popular Technical — Cassandra Technical — Kafka
Monday 11th February 2019 by Paul Brebner
Kubernetes—Greek: κυβερνήτης = Helmsman If you are Greek hero about to embark on an epic aquatic quest (encountering one-eyed rock-throwing monsters, unpleasant weather, a detour to the underworld, tempting sirens, angry gods, etc.) then having a trusty helmsman is mandatory (even though the helmsman survived the Cyclops, like all of Odysseus’s companions, he eventually came […]