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Removing Support for Outdated Encryption Mechanisms
At Instaclustr, security is the foundation of everything we do. We are continually working towards compliance with additional security standards as well as conducting regular risk reviews of our environments. This blog post outlines some technical changes we are making that both increases the security of our managed environment and enables compliance with a wider...
Learn MoreAlwyn DavisSeptember 19, 2019 -
- Technical
Debugging Jobs in the Apache Spark™ UI
Overview In this post, we’ll be running a basic Apache Spark job that selects data from a Cassandra database using a couple of different methods. We will then examine how to compare the performance of those methods using the Spark UI. Setup For this post, we will use a Zeppelin+Spark+Cassandra cluster. If you’d like to...
Learn MoreAlwyn DavisApril 08, 2017 -
- Technical
BATCH: Workflow, Metrics & Use Cases
Overview Recently, I needed to work my way through the details of how batch transactions are processed in Cassandra and also how they affect exposed metrics. This article outlines the workflow of submitting a batch via the Java Cassandra driver and will hopefully be of use to others interested in this process. This article summarises the process...
Learn MoreAlwyn DavisOctober 25, 2016