Technical
Wednesday 9th May 2018 by Paul Brebner
Kafka Connect is an API and ecosystem of 3rd party connectors that enables Kafka to be easily integrated with other heterogeneous systems without having to write any extra code. This blog focuses on...Technical
Wednesday 9th May 2018 by Lerh Chuan Low
Motivation When examining whether Cassandra is a good fit for your needs, it is good practice to stress test Cassandra using a workload that looks similar to the expected workload in Production. In...Technical
Wednesday 9th May 2018 by Paul Brebner
Kafka Connect is an API and ecosystem of 3rd party connectors that enables Apache Kafka to be scalable, reliable, and easily integrated with other heterogeneous systems (such as Cassandra, Spark, and Elassandra) without...News
Tuesday 1st May 2018 by Instaclustr
For organizations that rely on the Cassandra NoSQL database but require more efficient search capabilities, Elassandra offers a compelling open-source solution. Elassandra combines the powers of Elasticsearch and Cassandra by utilizing Elasticsearch as a Cassandra secondary index.Technical
Thursday 26th April 2018 by Paul Brebner
Kafkafying – the transformation of a primitive monolithic program into a sophisticated scalable low-latency distributed streaming application (c.f. “An epidemic of a zombifying virus ravaged the country”) Steps for Kafkafying Kongo In the...News
Tuesday 24th April 2018 by Instaclustr
In the previous article, we gained an understanding of the main Kafka components and how Apache Kafka consumers work. Now, we’ll see how these contribute to the ability of Kafka to provide extreme scalability...News
Friday 13th April 2018 by Instaclustr
The Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform features an architecture that – ironically, given the name – provides application messaging that is markedly clearer and less Kafkaesque when compared with alternatives. In this article, we’ll take...Technical
Thursday 5th April 2018 by Kurt Greaves
Open source software is tricky business. One might think a volunteer project that gives you free software is the greatest thing ever, however making such a project work is complex. Creating open source...Technical
Thursday 5th April 2018 by Paul Brebner
This is the second post in our series exploring designing and developing and example IOT application with Apache Kafka to illustrate typical design and implementation considerations and patterns. In the previous blog, we...Technical Popular
Sunday 25th March 2018 by Ben Slater
Financial services industries such as banking, insurance and capital management have been built on data since they first began. From ancient money lenders with clay tablets to early 20th century clerks with rooms...News
Friday 23rd March 2018 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr is excited to announce our managed service support for Elassandra 5.5, updating our release of Elassandra 2.5 last year. The new release includes: Kibana 5.5 Elassandra 5.5.0.13 (based on Cassandra 3.11.2 and...News
Thursday 22nd March 2018 by Kurt Greaves
In February, the Apache Cassandra project issued releases for all currently supported branches of Apache Cassandra. As far as releases go the change list was modest, which shows that we’re seeing fewer bugs...Site by Swell Design Group
