Monitoring at Scale Series  In this series of blogs, explore the various ways we pushed our metrics pipeline—mainly our Apache Cassandra® cluster named Instametrics—to the limit, and how we went about reducing the load it was experiencing on a daily basis over the course of several years. Beginning in 2015 and up until now, discover...

In this article we are going to learn how to use the ORDER BY clause in PostgreSQL® to sort the results from SELECT queries.  Sorting Rows  When we make a SELECT statement in PostgreSQL, the resulting rows are returned in an unspecified order. To have these results sorted, we need to use the Order By...

In this blog post, we look at how we use the profiling tools integrated to IntelliJ IDEA IDE at Instaclustr to improve the overall performance and optimize the memory usage of our Java applications. So, if you are a developer having trouble recently with decreased performance or an increased memory footprint of your application, this...

Despite Kafka being a schemaless open-source platform, Karapace offers support for schemas. The main scheme type offered by Karapace is Avro so In part 1 we are going to walk through Apache Avro to serialize and deserialize a Platonic Solids example.