Technical Technical — Kafka
Monday 21st September 2020 by Paul Brebner
The annual 2020 Kakfa summit went ahead this year (August 24-25), but this time in a virtual format. This turned out to be a good thing for me as I’m in the wrong time zone to watch the talks live, so I could take my time after the summit to catch up. Actually, this format […]
Feature Releases Technical — Kafka
Monday 21st September 2020 by Paul Aubrey
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the release of Managed Mirroring as an additional feature of our Kafka Connect offering on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. Our Managed Mirroring offering uses the MirrorMaker functionality in Kafka Connect as its foundation. Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka, the leading distributed event streaming platform. It is governed by […]
Feature Releases Technical — Redis
Wednesday 16th September 2020 by Ben Slater
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the general availability of our managed Redis offering, Instaclustr for Redis™*, on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. After passing through our enterprise and security testing Redis has additionally been put through its paces in our the public preview. In the lead up to today’s general availability we have enriched our monitoring […]
Technical Technical — Redis
Wednesday 9th September 2020 by Paul Brebner
Look! Up in the sky! It’s an in-memory key-value store! It’s a database! It’s Redis! Faster than a speeding database! More powerful than an in-memory key-value store! Able to leap tall performance barriers at a single bound! “Yes, it’s Redis—strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those […]
Team
Tuesday 25th August 2020 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Patricia Tantow, Chief Marketing Officer, Instaclustr What does your role at Instaclustr entail? As the Chief Marketing Officer, I am responsible for designing marketing programs that drive customer growth, engagement, and retention. I am also in charge of the company’s global […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Monday 24th August 2020 by Lewis DiFelice
In this post, we’ll look at some of the key differences between Apache Cassandra (hereafter just Cassandra) and DynamoDB. Both are distributed databases and have similar architecture, and both offer incredible scalability, reliability, and resilience. However, there are also differences, and understanding the differences and cost benefits can help you determine the right solution for […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Wednesday 19th August 2020 by Adam Zegelin
Continuing our efforts in adding support for the latest generation of Azure Virtual Machines, Instaclustr is pleased to announce support for the D15v2 and L8v2 types with local storage support for Apache Cassandra clusters on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. So let’s begin by introducing the two forms of storage. Local storage is a non-persistent (i.e. […]
Team
Tuesday 28th July 2020 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Mussa Shirazi, Senior Consultant, Instaclustr What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I work as Senior consultant at Instaclustr, as part of the Consulting team. I’m involved in customer consultancy projects for technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra. I work very […]
Feature Releases Technical Technical — Elasticsearch Technical — Kafka
Tuesday 28th July 2020 by Paul Aubrey
Instaclustr is pleased to announce we have now added an Elasticsearch Sink Connector, open sourced by lenses.io with an Apache 2.0 license, as a bundled and fully supported connector on Kafka Connect clusters created on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. It enables rapid, no-code integration of Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch to seamlessly move data into Elasticsearch. […]
Technical — Cassandra Feature Releases
Tuesday 21st July 2020 by Ben Bromhead
The beta release of Apache Cassandra 4.0 is finally here, it’s been two years in the making. We’ve had a preview release available to customers since March for testing. A wide range of improvements have been made. Stability The explicit goal of this release has been to be “the most stable major release ever” to […]
Technical — Elasticsearch Technical
Tuesday 14th July 2020 by Paul Brebner
Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can spin for her living. (Two Gentlemen of Verona, III, 1) The weary sun hath made a golden set, And by the bright track of his fiery car, Gives signal, of a goodly day to-morrow. (Richard III, V, 3) Thy burning car never had scorch’d […]
Technical Technical — Elasticsearch
Monday 13th July 2020 by Paul Aubrey
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability of Managed Kibana, which can be deployed with an Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch cluster. Kibana’s Features Kibana is an open source data exploration and visualization tool which allows you to analyze massive amounts of data residing in an Elasticsearch cluster. Kibana offers its powerful features through a browser-based interface […]