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 […]
Technical Technical — Kafka Technical — Elasticsearch
Wednesday 14th October 2020 by Zeke Dean
A lot of people new to data science don’t know what to do after they write their first Python or R script. While that web scraper may have run well on your laptop—one time, you need to think about a streaming architecture that can handle multiple datasets. You need to not only store the results […]
Feature Releases Technical — Kafka
Monday 12th October 2020 by Paul Aubrey
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the release of dedicated ZooKeeper nodes as an additional optional feature of our managed Apache Kafka offering. ZooKeeper is used for the management and coordination of nodes in Kafka. Dedicated ZooKeeper nodes provide customer benefits in situations that require high performance and reliability: Improvements to reliability in failure scenarios (primarily […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Thursday 8th October 2020 by Paul Brebner
The annual Kafka Summit 2020 went ahead this year (August 24-25) with a lot of topics. In the previous blog, I examined talks 1-3 from the perspective of challenging Kafka Use Cases. In this blog, I’ll focus on some of the more interesting Kafka technology advances from the remaining talks that I watched. Here is […]
Technical Technical — Redis
Tuesday 6th October 2020 by Thomas Griffiths
An In-Memory Database or Data Structure Server? Redis is a fast in-memory database and cache, open source under a BSD license, written in C and optimized for speed. Redis’ name comes from “REmote DIctionary Server”. Redis is often called a data structure server because its core data types are similar to those found in programming […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Monday 5th October 2020 by Paul Brebner
In the fourth blog of the “Around the World ” series we built a prototype of the application, designed to run in two georegions. Recently I re-watched “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” (The original 1979 Star Trek Film). I’d forgotten how much like “2001: A Space Odyssey” the vibe was (a drawn out quest to […]