Instaclustr Blog Archive
2023 | Page 3
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- Technical
Security Advisory: CVE-2023-44981 Apache ZooKeeper™
Issue Details: On October 11, 2023, the Apache ZooKeeper™ project announced that a security vulnerability has been identified in Apache ZooKeeper, CVE-2023-44981. The Apache ZooKeeper project has classified the severity of this CVE as critical. The CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 3.x severity rating for this vulnerability by the NVD (National Vulnerability Database) is base...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 24, 2023 -
- PostgreSQL
How To Improve Your LLM Accuracy and Performance With PGVector and PostgreSQL®: Introduction to Embeddings and the Role of PGVector
Why Use PGVector? We’ve all been in this position before: trying to quickly solve a technical problem just to end up spending hours browsing through endless documentation in the hope of finding a solution. With all that time going to waste, there has to be a better way to search documentation. And now, there is. ...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 19, 2023 -
- Apache Kafka
- Dev Rel
- Technical
Machine Learning Over Streaming Kafka Data—Part 6: Incremental TensorFlow Training With Kafka Data and Concept Drift
In the “Machine Learning over Streaming Kafka Data” blog series we’ve been learning all about Kafka Machine Learning—incrementally! In the previous part, we connected TensorFlow to Kafka and explored how incremental learning works in practice with moving data. In this part, we introduce concept drift, try and reduce noise, and remove time! 1. Concept Drift ...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerOctober 17, 2023 -
- Cadence
- Technical
How to Throttle Cadence®
Originally developed and open sourced by Uber, Cadence® is a workflow engine that greatly simplifies the development of complex, long-running automated business processes at scale. NetApp offers Cadence on the Instaclustr Platform, providing fully automated provisioning and ongoing management of Cadence and its dependent technologies (Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, and OpenSearch®). This blog provides some background into one aspect of the behind-the-scenes implementation of our Developer Shared Infrastructure offering for Cadence.
Learn MoreRony RahmanOctober 10, 2023 -
- News
- OpenSearch
NetApp Has Released OpenSearch 2.9.0 to General Availability on the Instaclustr Managed Platform
OpenSearch® version 2.9.0 has now been released on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. This new version includes a number of exciting updates we’d like to tell you about. OpenSearch customers can now create alerts and anomaly detectors directly through OpenSearch Dashboards. You can also see these alerts and anomalies overlaid on your dashboard graphs. This streamlines...
Learn MoreAlex BundayOctober 05, 2023 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Security Advisory: CVE-2023-43642 Snappy-Java
Issue Details Following the publication of CVE-2023-43642, Instaclustr began investigating its potential impact on our Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra® offering. This vulnerability affects snappy-java, which is a runtime dependency of Apache Cassandra versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.11, 4.0, and 4.1. When decompressing data with a chunk size that is too large, the SnappyInputStream component function of...
Learn MoreInstaclustrSeptember 30, 2023 -
- Apache Kafka
- Feature Releases
- News
Instaclustr for Apache ZooKeeper ® 3.8.2 Is Generally Available
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Instaclustr for Apache ZooKeeper ® 3.8.2 on our managed platform. ZooKeeper 3.8.2 is the first release of ZooKeeper 3.8 which we’re making available on our managed platform. With this release, ZooKeeper 3.7.1—which is currently generally available on our platform—will be moved to the lifecycle state of...
Learn MoreVarun GhaiSeptember 29, 2023 -
- Apache Kafka
- Dev Rel
- Technical
Machine Learning Over Streaming Kafka® Data—Part 5: Incremental TensorFlow Training With Kafka Data
In the “Machine Learning over Streaming Kafka Data” blog series we’ve been learning all about Kafka Machine Learning – incrementally! In the previous part, we explored incremental training with TensorFlow, but without the complication of using Kafka. In this part, we now connect TensorFlow to Kafka and explore how incremental learning works in practice with...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerSeptember 28, 2023