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Apache Cassandra 4.0 – Stability and Testing
The last major version release of Apache Cassandra® was 3.11.0 and that was more than 2 years ago in 2017. So what has the Cassandra developer community been doing over the last 2 years? Well let me tell you, it’s good – real good. It’s Apache Cassandra 4.0! The final release is not here as...
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January 08, 2020 -
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What We Learned at AWS re:invent 2018
Last week, 11 intrepid team members from Instaclustr traveled from the corners of the world to brave 140+ hours in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, Amazon’s flagship conference for AWS and one of the biggest cloud conferences in the world. Over the course of the five days we interacted spoke with over 2000 attendees, were...
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December 07, 2018 -
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Why We Built an Open Source Cassandra-Operator to Run Apache Cassandra® on Kubernetes
As Kubernetes becomes the de facto for container orchestration, more and more developers (and enterprises) want to run Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes. It’s easy to get started with this – especially considering the capabilities that Kubernetes’ StatefulSets bring to the table. Kubernetes, though, certainly has room to improve when it comes to storing data in-state...
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September 13, 2018 -
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The Next Generation Cassandra Conference (NGCC)
NGCC Summary The Next Generation Cassandra Conference (NGCC) is an annual meeting of developers, contributors, committers, driver authors and anyone interested in the development of Apache Cassandra where they can all get together and talk about the technical and community direction of the Cassandra project. This year the NGCC was held in San Antonio, Texas....
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October 19, 2017 -
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Instaclustr Masters scholarship in conjunction with University of Canberra
Overview As part of our commitment to contributing back to the Apache Cassandra open source project and the wider community we are always looking for ways we can foster knowledge sharing and improve usability of Cassandra itself. One of the ways we have done so previously was to open up our internal builds and versions...
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February 09, 2017 -
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Apache Cassandra: The Big Data Foundation
Introduction To state the obvious, we here at Instaclustr are massive fans of Apache Cassandra. We have built our company and our managed service around this database technology and the awesomeness of its capability. There are a lot of well documented use cases and amazing companies providing examples of how they are using open source...
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January 31, 2017 -
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Apache Cassandra 3.x and Materialized Views
Overview Apache Cassandra 3.0 introduces a new feature called materialized views. Materialized views behave like they do in other database systems, you create a table that is populated by the results of a query. Cassandra also keeps the materialized view up to date based on the data you insert into the base table. Whilst the...
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June 07, 2016 -
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Modernising a nation’s payment infrastructure
Background In October 2014 RBA Governor Glenn Stevens announced that he wanted Australian banks to work together and modernise the nation’s payment systems to keep pace with technological innovations. He issued an ultimatum – build a better payments system or we will make you. Mr. Stevens then reminded Australia’s banks that other comparable countries had...
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November 26, 2014