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Scaling with Open Source Software
Overview As we close out what has been an exciting year for Instaclustr, which has culminated in our recent announcement of a $7m private investment round, I thought it was timely to provide some insight into our company and plans for 2017 and beyond. Over the last 3 years, for the most part, we have...
Learn MorePeter LilleyDecember 15, 2016 -
- Technical
Instaclustr Engineering Year in Review
This year has been another massive step forward for Instaclustr Engineering. In addition to the many important new features added to our product set, working with the team you can really feel the benefits of the experience we’ve accumulated and the maturing of our processes. On the technical operations side, we continue to hear that...
Learn MoreBen SlaterDecember 15, 2016 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Adam Zegelin
Name Adam Zegelin Role Instaclustr Co-founder and Senior Software Engineer Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? It was a natural progression of sorts. I have been interested in computers from an early age. I am also a causal PC game player, but I’ve always been more interested in how video...
Learn MoreInstaclustrDecember 01, 2016 -
- Apache Spark
- Apache Cassandra
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Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark™ Now Available on Google Cloud Platform
Instaclustr is pleased to announce immediate beta availability of our Managed Cassandra and Spark offerings on the Google Cloud Platform. Instaclustr is the leading provider of Apache Cassandra and Spark as a managed service with over 6 million node-hours of experience managing these technologies on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM SoftLayer. Instaclustr’s expansion...
Learn MoreAdam ZegelinNovember 27, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Cassandra Collections: Hidden Tombstones and How to Avoid Them
Overview Multi-value data types (sets, lists and maps) are a powerful feature of Cassandra, aiding you in denormalisation while allowing you to still retrieve and set data at a very fine-grained level. However, some of Cassandra’s behaviour when handling these data types is not always as expected and can cause issues. In particular, there can...
Learn MoreAdam ZegelinNovember 23, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Upgrading Instametrics to Apache Cassandra 3
In previous posts, we’ve described our Instametrics solution which provides the monitoring services for the close to 1,000 instances we manage. We’ve always seen this solution as an important proving ground for new technology that we are providing to our customers and so have recently upgraded from Cassandra 2.1.13 to Cassandra 3.7 LTS (Long Term Support)...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 22, 2016 -
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Instaclustr and Baffle Partnership
Instaclustr is pleased to announce a partnership with Baffle.io to make Baffle encryption technology available to our customers as part of the Instaclustr Managed Cassandra platform. For Instaclustr, the security of our client’s data is paramount. However, while we take all the steps we can to secure clusters managed by us, the most secure solution for...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 26, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr Support for OEM Apache Cassandra
Increasingly software developers are choosing Apache Cassandra as the data store for packaged software products. Typically, this is due to Cassandra’s industry leading levels of availability, reliability and scalability. However, many end customers for these software products, and even the software developers themselves, may have limited or no experience supporting Cassandra in an operational environment. Instaclustr’s Support...
Learn MoreAdam ZegelinOctober 25, 2016