Instaclustr Blog Archive
2019 | Page 5
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- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Danyang Li
Name Danyang Li Role Software Engineer Location Canberra, Australia How long have you been at Instaclustr, and how has the company changed while you’ve been there? I’ve been working at Instaclustr for almost three and a half years. When I started as an intern, we had a small office with about ten people. Since then...
Learn MoreInstaclustrApril 24, 2019 -
- Technical
Press Release: 451 Research – A fresh $15m propels Instaclustr to focus, harden its cloud-based data platform
Report by 451 Research by James Curtis The company is seeing notable growth in both the quality and quantity of its customers, and with new funding, it will be able to expand its platform capabilities beyond Apache Cassandra. Going forward, its focus will be on Apache Spark, Apache Kafka and the forthcoming release of Elasticsearch....
Learn MoreInstaclustrApril 10, 2019 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Kafka
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- Technical
Anomalia Machina 9: Anomaly Detection at Scale
In the previous blog, we deployed the Anomalia Machina application in a production-like Kubernetes environment. In this blog, we test it out and see many anomalies it can detect at scale on small Kafka and Cassandra Instaclustr production clusters. Coming towards the end of our epic odyssey we now have a final challenge to overcome....
Learn MorePaul BrebnerMarch 13, 2019 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Speculative Query Executions with GoCql
Speculative query executions in Cassandra are an interesting solution for some use cases, such as faulty/slow/unresponsive nodes or network issues. This kind of execution allows a client to launch a DB request for multiple endpoints at the same time and let these requests compete for the winning response. This would only work if the query...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMarch 13, 2019 -
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- Technical
Anomalia Machina 8: Production Application Deployment With Kubernetes
In the previous blog we explored deploying the Anomalia Machina application on Kubernetes with the help of AWS EKS. In the recent blogs (Anomalia Machina 5 and Anomalia Machina 6), we enhanced the observability of the Anomalia Machina Application using two Open Source technologies: Prometheus for distributed monitoring of metrics such as throughput and latency;...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerMarch 05, 2019 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Kafka
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- Technical
SLAs – Watch Out for the Shades of Gray
The Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an integral part of an MSP’s (Managed Service Provider) business. Its purpose is to define the scope of services that the MSP offers, including: guarantees on metrics relevant to their business and technology customer responsibilities issue management compensation commitment when MSPs fail to deliver on the SLA. It should...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMarch 04, 2019 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Popular
- Technical
Upgraded Compute Intensive Node Sizes for AWS Clusters
Last year, Instaclustr upgraded its support for high throughput, compute intensive nodes on top of the AWS platform. This involved switching away from the aging c3 instance types and onto the newer c5d instance type. The new c5d instances provide better performance, better compute power and is better value for money than the c3 instances....
Learn MoreBen SlaterFebruary 27, 2019 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Brooke Thorley
Name Brooke Thorley Role VP of Customer Success Location Canberra, Australia You recently stepped into the role of VP of Customer Success, what does that entail? As the title implies, a lot of interfacing with our customers! In a nutshell, it means making sure our worldwide customers are getting what they need from Instaclustr, whether...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 25, 2019