Here at NetApp® Instaclustr, we pride ourselves on our ability to migrate customers from self-managed or other managed providers with minimal risk and zero downtime, no matter how complex the scenario. At any point in time, we typically have 5-10 cluster migrations in progress. Planning and executing these migrations with our customers is a core...

Sometimes you might need to spin up a local test database quickly–a database that doesn’t need to last beyond a set time or number of uses. Or maybe you want to integrate Apache Cassandra® into an existing Docker setup.   Either way, you’re going to want to run Cassandra on Docker, which means running it in...

Welcome to Part 1 in our series about user interfaces (UI) to help you visualize and monitor data within your Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® cluster!   So, you’ve been using Apache Kafka® for a while now and are starting to wonder: how can I get the most out of it in a more user-friendly way? This...

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 Warp Drive (Source: Bryan Alexander, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) As every “Trekky” (a fan of Star Trek) knows, in the Star Trek universe spaceships can travel at speeds faster than light using warp engines fuelled by antimatter. It turns out that antimatter is real enough in our universe, but very...