Instaclustr Blog Archive
2016
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- Feature Releases
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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 -
- 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 Cassandra
- Apache Spark
- Feature Releases
- Technical
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 MoreInstaclustrNovember 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 MoreInstaclustrNovember 23, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Upgrading Instametrics to Apache Cassandra 3
Monitoring at Scale Series In this series of blogs, explore the various ways we pushed our metrics pipeline—mainly our Apache Cassandra® cluster named Instametrics—to the limit, and how we went about reducing the load it was experiencing on a daily basis over the course of several years. Beginning in 2015 and up until now, discover...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 22, 2016 -
- Technical
BATCH: Workflow, Metrics & Use Cases
Overview Recently, I needed to work my way through the details of how batch transactions are processed in Cassandra and also how they affect exposed metrics. This article outlines the workflow of submitting a batch via the Java Cassandra driver and will hopefully be of use to others interested in this process. This article summarises the process...
Learn MoreAlwyn DavisOctober 25, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Announcing a patch to Apache Cassandra® 3.7
In the last couple of days, we made the latest Apache Cassandra releases available in production for Instaclustr Managed Cassandra. This is something we do very regularly and normally I wouldn’t be writing a blog post about it. However, this time we’ve taken the unusual step of building our own patched version of Cassandra 3.7...
Learn MoreBen SlaterOctober 19, 2016 -
- Technical
Announcing Instaclustr Synthetic Transaction Monitoring
Overview One of the challenges we are constantly tackling at Instaclustr is how to effectively monitor clusters, and particularly read and write latency, given the wide variety of use cases that customer use our service for. Our recent introduction of synthetic transaction monitoring adds significantly to our capability to reliably monitor cluster performance regardless of...
Learn MoreBen SlaterOctober 17, 2016