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- 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
Patched 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
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 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Demystifying Cassandra’s broadcast_address
When configuring Apache Cassandra to work in a new environment or with a new application or service we sometimes find ourselves asking “What’s the difference between broadcast_address and broadcast_rpc_address again?”. The difference is broadcast_address relates to gossip and node to node communications, whereas broadcast_rpc_address is associated with client connections. Read on for more details. The Cassandra configuration file has a few interdependent properties...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 11, 2016 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Christophe Schmitz
Name Christophe Schmitz Role Senior Software engineer Location Canberra, Australia What has your role as Senior Software Engineer at Instaclustr involved? In the last six months I have mostly been involved in a Cassandra Consulting role, helping our clients to deliver scalable platforms where Cassandra plays a central role. Before that, I was designing and...
Learn MoreInstaclustrSeptember 30, 2016 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr APIs
Instaclustr has two REST APIs that are available for our customers: A monitoring API that provides programmatic access to the same Cassandra monitoring information that is available through our management console; A provisioning API that enables provision and destruction of clusters and associated objects (e.g. firewall rules, VPC connections) Both APIs use an API key...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 19, 2016 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Encrypted EBS Support
Instaclustr has recently released support for provisioning Amazon Web Services based Cassandra clusters with encrypted EBS and encrypted backups. This support brings two big benefits to our customers: By utilising encrypted EBS (plus encrypted backups), customers may be able to meet compliance requirements that mandate encryption of data at rest. Customers always retain control of...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 08, 2016 -
- Popular
Instaclustr Increases Open Source Commitment
At Instaclustr we’re strong believers that open source is the future of software. The key technologies we support (Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark) are open source and our management systems are built on open source technology. As such, we believe that it’s vital that companies such as ourselves that rely on open source contribute fairly...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 06, 2016