Blogs — March 2020

Feature Releases Technical — Elasticsearch

Instaclustr Announces the General Availability of Its Managed Elasticsearch Service

Tuesday 31st March 2020 by Kaushik Mysur

Instaclustr is pleased to announce the general availability of Elasticsearch Managed Service on the Instaclustr Managed Platform which uniquely places us as the leading Managed Service partner to enterprise businesses for three leading data layer technologies, Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, and now, Elasticsearch: all highly available and massively scalable technologies that address your data layer […]

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Instaclustr’s Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak

Wednesday 11th March 2020 by Instaclustr

With the current outbreak of Coronavirus (Covid-19), Instaclustr has started to receive questions about our response to the potential pandemic, and whether our customers should expect any interruption to their services. Instaclustr has activated our Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Importantly, our BCP is designed to ensure that no one event can interrupt services to our […]

Technical Technical — Kafka

A Visual Understanding to Ensuring Your Kafka Data is (Literally) in Order

Wednesday 11th March 2020 by Zeke Dean

Apache Kafka provides developers with a uniquely powerful, open source and versatile distributed streaming platform – but it also has some rather complex nuances to understand when trying to store and retrieve data in your preferred order. Kafka captures streaming data by publishing records to a category or feed name called a topic. Kafka consumers […]

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Instaclustr Insights: Meet Alwyn Davis

Wednesday 11th March 2020 by Instaclustr

Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members work life. This time it is Alwyn Davis, Technical Director. Alwyn is based out of the Canberra office. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I’m a Technical Director and my job mostly focuses on managing many of our technical projects. I provide architectural direction and steer […]

Technical Technical — Cassandra

Apache Cassandra 4.0 - Audit

Tuesday 10th March 2020 by Ben Bromhead

Apache Cassandra 4.0 brings about a long awaited feature for tracking and logging database user activity. Primarily aimed at providing a robust set of audit capabilities allowing operators of Cassandra to meet external compliance obligations, it brings yet another enterprise feature into the database.  Combining work for the full query log capability, the audit log […]

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An Introduction to Cassandra Multi-Data Centers: Part 1

Monday 9th March 2020 by Paul Brebner

Quick! Grab your top hat, passport, carpetbag stuffed with (mainly) cash, and your valet (if you have one), and join with me on a wild journey around the world in approximately 8 data centers—a new blog series to explore the world of globally distributed storage, streaming, and search with Instaclustr Managed Open Source Technologies such […]

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Purity and Practicality: True Open Source Has Earned Its Trusted Place in Today’s Enterprise

Sunday 8th March 2020 by Ben Bromhead

Enterprises are now overloaded with choice when it comes to the breadth of their technology stack possibilities. One of the most important is deciding whether to move forward with open source or proprietary solutions (whether deployed in the cloud or or-prem). It’s a critical decision shaping the immediate and long-term future of any business’ technology […]

Technical Technical — Cassandra

Instaclustr Announces Preview Release of Apache Cassandra 4.0 on Instaclustr Managed Platform

Friday 6th March 2020 by Ben Slater

Instaclustr announces immediate availability of a preview release of Apache Cassandra 4.0 on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. This release is designed to allow Instaclustr customers to easily undertake any application-specific testing of Apache Cassandra 4.0 (alpha 3) in preparation for the forthcoming GA release of Apache Cassandra 4.0. Apache Cassandra 4.0, as the first major […]