Instaclustr Blog Archive
2014
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- Technical
Modernising a nation’s payment infrastructure
Background In October 2014 RBA Governor Glenn Stevens announced that he wanted Australian banks to work together and modernise the nation’s payment systems to keep pace with technological innovations. He issued an ultimatum – build a better payments system or we will make you. Mr. Stevens then reminded Australia’s banks that other comparable countries had...
Learn MoreBen BromheadNovember 26, 2014 -
- Apache Cassandra
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Presentation by Ben Bromhead at Cassandra Summit 2014 – San Francisco
Streaming From Backups – Reducing Cluster Load When Adding Nodes Speaker: Ben Bromhead, Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer at Instaclustr One of the difficulties with scaling your cluster to cope with additional traffic is the very act of adding capacity increases the load on the cluster, often at a time when your cluster is already...
Learn MoreBen BromheadNovember 06, 2014 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Presentation by Adam Zegelin at Cassandra Summit 2014 – San Francisco
Instaclustr’s Adam Zegelin presented at the September 2014 Cassandra Summit, on the topic, Multi-Region Clusters — Cassandra Deployments Split Between Heterogeneous Data Centre Speaker: Adam Zegelin, CTO at Instaclustr In this presentation we discuss a method of provisioning and running an Apache Cassandra deployment spilt between multiple heterogeneous data centers which, rather than allocating per-node...
Learn MoreInstaclustrNovember 05, 2014 -
- Popular
Cassandra Summit 2014 – Summary
Wow, what a week it was. Seven days later and our heads are still spinning. The Cassandra Summit officially ran over the 10th and the 11th of September, but for the Instaclustr team it started a lot earlier with us all flying into San Francisco from Canberra, Australia over the weekend. We had a healthy...
Learn MoreInstaclustrSeptember 22, 2014 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Fixing a compaction mistake
Apache Cassandra’s log-structured storage engine delivers amazing performance by ensuring that all inserts and updates are written sequentially to disk. Once data is written to disk as an sstable it is never modified. When you change a record, the new version of it is written to the next data sstable on disk. Over time read performance...
Learn MoreInstaclustrSeptember 04, 2014