Technical Technical — Redis
Thursday 25th February 2021 by Shane Ducksbury
Caching is an important step in increasing the performance of many applications. It can be difficult to determine which caching solution is the best for your use case. Two likely contenders that will often make an appearance in your search for the answer are Redis vs Memcached. In the green corner is Memcached (est. 2003), […]
Team
Tuesday 23rd February 2021 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Jackson Fleming – Software Engineer, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I’m a Software Engineer in the Admin Services team within our Engineering department. We build and maintain the tools and infrastructure that our support staff (which we refer to […]
Technical Technical — Elasticsearch
Monday 22nd February 2021 by Shane Ducksbury
After my last blog post about Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, I wanted to investigate something else I kept coming across during my Logstash research: Elastic Beats. Beats initially appeared to me to be a way to send data to Elasticsearch, the same as Logstash, leading me to wonder how Beats is different and where it […]
News Technical — Cassandra Technical
Sunday 7th February 2021 by Instaclustr
Earlier this week, a vulnerability was published to the Cassandra users mailing list which describes a flaw in the way Apache Cassandra nodes perform encryption in some configurations. The vulnerability description is reproduced here: “Description: When using ‘dc’ or ‘rack’ internode_encryption setting, a Cassandra instance allows both encrypted and unencrypted connections. A misconfigured node or […]
News Technical
Monday 1st February 2021 by Thomas Griffiths
Instaclustr is pleased to announce that our popular Terraform provider is now published to the official Terraform providers registry. This makes the provider publicly available for browsing and searching via the registry interface, as well as available to install via the CLI. Terraform is a popular framework that enables infrastructure as code (IAC) capabilities, allowing […]