Instaclustr Blog Archive
2022
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- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
Apache Cassandra® 4.1: Discover What’s New
Apache Cassandra® 4.1 is bringing some seriously useful new features to the table! What’s New? First up: the new Guardrails framework is specifically designed to help operators avoid configuration and usage pitfalls that could potentially degrade the performance and availability of their clusters. This is a big deal, as it means that you will have...
Learn MoreBen BromheadDecember 21, 2022 -
- PostgreSQL
General Availability of PostgreSQL® Major Release 15.1 (preview) and Minor Versions 14.6 and 13.9
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability of the new PostgreSQL® major release 15.1 and minor releases 14.6 and 13.9 on the Instaclustr managed platform. PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open source, object-relational database system. Instaclustr is a leading provider of open source data solutions, helping customers avoid the risks of vendor lock-in and unsupported...
Learn MoreChris CarterDecember 14, 2022 -
- Apache Kafka
- Dev Rel
Apache Kafka® KRaft Abandons the Zoo(Keeper): Part 2—Partitions and Meta-Data Performance
In Part 1 of this blog series we explored the background to Kafka® and meta-data management, including the use of ZooKeeperTM and the recent move to KRaft to replace it. We revealed the results of our first experiment with Kafka ZooKeeper vs. KRaft, to measure the impact of increasing partitions on a data workload. Interestingly, there...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerDecember 08, 2022 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Apache Cassandra for the SQL Server Developer
I started my career as a DBA with SQL Server 6.0. around about 2015. I was a new hire who was scheduled to support our SQL Server and MySQL databases. However, soon after my arrival, the CTO called me into his office to tell me I was the new Cassandra DBA. My reply was “That’s...
Learn MoreLewis DiFeliceDecember 06, 2022 -
- Cadence
- Technical
Cadence® Connection Examples Using TLS
In Cadence® 0.24.0, TLS support was introduced for the gRPC transport (https://github.com/uber/cadence/pull/4606). In this blog we provide a couple of sample code snippets—one using the Go SDK and the other using the Java SDK—to demonstrate how to establish connection to the Cadence server using TLS. For both the snippets, we assume a X.509 Certificate Authority...
Learn MoreRony RahmanDecember 02, 2022 -
- Cadence
- Dev Rel
- Technical
Cadence® iWF
Another day, another article about Cadence® but this time we are going to look at something a little bit different. One of the best features of open source software, such as Cadence, is that the community can contribute improvements in lots of ways—from small contributions like bug fixes and implementing feature enhancements, all the way to...
Learn MoreJohn Del CastilloDecember 01, 2022 -
- Apache Kafka
- Dev Rel
- Technical
AWS Kinesis vs. Kafka: Comparing Architectures, Features, and Cost
Event driven architectures are very powerful, and they are a fundamental way that modern software solutions are being developed. In this article we compare 2 technologies that power it: Apache Kafka® and AWS Kinesis. We will see how they can be used as the engine which drives event driven architecture, and which one is the...
Learn MoreJohn Del CastilloNovember 28, 2022 -
- Cadence
- Dev Rel
- Technical
Building With Cadence®: Quantifiable Efficiency?
Intro We’ve seen in previous articles some of the ways in which Cadence® makes it easy to create powerful, complex, and reliable workflows. We have also compared it to other workflow technologies, such as Conductor and Apache Airflow, but solutions like Cadence primarily compete against in-house solutions and companies doing it themselves. It is perfectly...
Learn MoreJohn Del CastilloNovember 21, 2022