Technical — Elasticsearch Popular
Friday 15th January 2021 by Ben Bromhead
Yesterday, Elastic announced they would moving their “Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License” (read their full announcement here). This change means that components of Elasticsearch or Kibana in subsequent versions (7.11 and onwards) are no longer under an OSI-approved […]
Team
Monday 4th January 2021 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Paris Larkins – Graduate Software Engineer, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? My role at Instaclustr entails managing, maintaining, enhancing, and implementing Instaclustr’s development security practices. This ranges from tracking and prioritizing discovered vulnerabilities, responding to security incidents, helping […]
Technical Technical — Elasticsearch
Monday 21st December 2020 by Thomas Griffiths
Elasticsearch is an open source scalable search and analytics engine. It takes the open source search engine Apache Lucene and enables it to scale across many machines in a cluster to handle large volumes of data at high speed. Much like the index at the back of a book, the core data structure of Lucene […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Thursday 17th December 2020 by Paul Brebner
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series we started a journey building a real-time pipeline to acquire, ingest, graph, and map public tidal data using Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. In this blog, we resume that journey and take an Apache “Camel” (Kafka Connector) through the desert (or the Australian […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Wednesday 9th December 2020 by Stefan Miklosovic
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a common vendor-neutral and lightweight protocol for organizing authentication of network services. Integration with LDAP allows users to unify the company’s security policies when one user or entity can log in and authenticate against a variety of services. There is a lot of demand from our enterprise customers to […]
Team
Monday 23rd November 2020 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Tessa Jensen – Technical Operations Manager, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I am one of the managers in our growing Technical Operations team. My responsibilities include the day to day management of our TechOps engineers, which includes, but […]
Technical Technical — Elasticsearch Technical — Kafka
Wednesday 11th November 2020 by Paul Brebner
In Part 1 of this blog we built a simple real-time data processing pipeline to take streaming tidal data from NOAA stations using Kafka connectors, and graph them in Elasticsearch and Kibana. We also tried viewing the data on a Kibana map but ran into a problem! In Part 2 we add the missing geo_points […]
Technical Technical — Elasticsearch Technical — Kafka
Thursday 5th November 2020 by Paul Brebner
ApacheCon @Home is over for 2020 and was a resounding success, with close to 6,000 attendees from every continent. As a Platinum Sponsor, Instaclustr ran an ApacheCon Booth and this blog was originally presented on 30 September, 2020 as a booth talk. I was one of the 1% attending from Australasia: This, unfortunately, meant I […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Thursday 5th November 2020 by Lewis DiFelice
In this article, we look at the available compatibility settings, which schema changes are permitted by each compatibility type, and how the Schema Registry enforces these rules.
Team
Tuesday 27th October 2020 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Evan Van Der Ploeg – Lead Software Engineer, Cassandra Team, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I’m a Lead Software Engineer in the Cassandra team, where I support an agile development team in delivering impactful changes in the Cassandra […]
Feature Releases Technical — Kafka
Thursday 22nd October 2020 by Paul Aubrey
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka version 2.5.1 on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. The new version is also available paired with version 2.5.1 of Kafka Connect. Apache Kafka is the leading distributed event streaming platform and is open source under the Apache 2.0 License. Instaclustr provides our customers managed and supported […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Wednesday 14th October 2020 by Michael Carter
Kafka Streams is a client library providing organizations with a particularly efficient framework for processing streaming data. It offers a streamlined method for creating applications and microservices that must process data in real-time to be effective. Using the Streams API within Apache Kafka, the solution fundamentally transforms input Kafka topics into output Kafka topics. The […]