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- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Elassandra & Kibana™ Data Exploration with Fantasy Basketball
Fantasy Basketball. Part statistics, part unpredictable human behaviour. It works like this: All the players in the NBA are put into a pool. Then, all the fantasy team owners take turns drafting the NBA players onto their fantasy team, building up the team. Then, each week, two teams go head to head, competing to see...
Learn MoreJordan BraiukaOctober 27, 2017 -
- Technical
Behind The Scenes
Spoiler alert! Kubrick’s scientific consultant Frederick Ordway once revealed that Kubrick had the props for the film destroyed because he didn’t want to ruin the illusion of 2001 for people. If you prefer to believe that 2001 was real, stop reading now, as behind-the-scenes photos did survive. 2001 pioneered lots of special effects! It was...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerOctober 25, 2017 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Announcing Instaclustr Private Network Clusters for Cassandra and Elassandra
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the release of a new feature, Private Network Clusters. This feature continues Instaclustr’s commitment to security by providing our customers with the option to provision clusters where the nodes do not have publically routable IPs allocated. This configuration is security best practice and a security requirement for many organisations as...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 20, 2017 -
- Technical
Fourth Contact With a Monolith
“The thing’s hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God! — it’s full of stars!” It’s full of Spreadsheets! (DataFrames) (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Given that a dog, Laika, was the 1st astronaut to orbit the earth, it’s appropriate for a dog to travel through the wormhole. After travelling through the wormhole,...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerOctober 20, 2017 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
The Next Generation Cassandra Conference (NGCC)
NGCC Summary The Next Generation Cassandra Conference (NGCC) is an annual meeting of developers, contributors, committers, driver authors and anyone interested in the development of Apache Cassandra where they can all get together and talk about the technical and community direction of the Cassandra project. This year the NGCC was held in San Antonio, Texas....
Learn MoreBen BromheadOctober 19, 2017 -
- Technical
Cassandra NoSQL Data Model Design
Abstract This paper describes the process that we follow at Instaclustr to design a Cassandra data model for our customers. While not a prescriptive, formal process it does define phases and steps that our team follows when we are design a new data model for our customers: Phase 1: Understand the data Phase 2: Define...
Learn MoreBen SlaterOctober 05, 2017 -
- Technical
Third Contact with a Monolith: Part C—In the Pod
A Simple Classification Problem: Will the Monolith React? Is It Safe?! Maybe a cautious approach to a bigger version of the Monolith (2km long) in a POD that is only 2m in diameter is advisable. What do we know about how Monoliths react to stimuli? A simple classification problem consists of the category (label) “no...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerSeptember 29, 2017 -
- Feature Releases
Announcing AWS Marketplace
We are pleased to announce that Instaclustr is now available as a SaaS Subscription on AWS Marketplace. Using the AWS Marketplace, AWS customers can use Instaclustr to provision new Cassandra, Elasticsearch & Spark clusters with no need to provide additional payment details. Services will be charged to the AWS customer’s account and will appear...
Learn MoreInstaclustrSeptember 26, 2017