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- Feature Releases
New Features for Instaclustr Managed Cadence®
Instaclustr’s Managed Cadence® offering was released to General Availability in early April. Since that time, we’ve been busy adding additional features as well as supporting early customers who are now running multiple Cadence clusters in production. This blog provides a run down on the new features added over the last few months. Originally developed and...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 02, 2022 -
- News
Instaclustr Releases Managed Cadence for Public Preview
Cadence is a stateful programming system that simplifies building scalable, distributed applications and workflows.
Learn MoreBen SlaterDecember 07, 2021 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
General Availability of Instaclustr for Redis™
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the general availability of our managed Redis offering, Instaclustr for Redis™*, on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. After passing through our enterprise and security testing Redis has additionally been put through its paces in our the public preview. In the lead up to today’s general availability we have enriched our monitoring...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 16, 2020 -
- Technical
- News
Preview Release of Instaclustr’s Managed Redis™
After the preview, the final offering will include Instaclustr’s industry leading support and SLAs. The preview release of Instaclustr's Managed Redis is available for you to try for free.
Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 15, 2020 -
- Technical
Instaclustr Announces Preview Release of Apache Cassandra 4.0 on Instaclustr Managed Platform
Instaclustr announces immediate availability of a preview release of Apache Cassandra 4.0 on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. This release is designed to allow Instaclustr customers to easily undertake any application-specific testing of Apache Cassandra 4.0 (alpha 3) in preparation for the forthcoming GA release of Apache Cassandra 4.0. Apache Cassandra 4.0, as the first major...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMarch 06, 2020 -
- Technical
Instaclustr Announces PCI-DSS Certification
Instaclustr is very pleased to announce that we have achieved PCI-DSS certification for our Managed Apache Cassandra and Managed Apache Kafka offerings running in AWS. PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard) is a mandated standard for many financial applications and we increasingly see the PCI-DSS controls adopted as the “gold standard” in other...
Learn MoreBen SlaterFebruary 19, 2020 -
- Technical
Top 5 Reasons to Choose Apache Cassandra® Over DynamoDB
Overview – Why Apache Cassandra Over DynamoDB DynamoDB and Apache Cassandra are both very popular distributed data store technologies. Both are used successfully in many applications and production-proven at phenomenal scale. At Instaclustr, we live and breathe Apache Cassandra (and Apache Kafka). We have many customers at all levels of size and maturity who have...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 16, 2019 -
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- Technical
Upgraded Compute Intensive Node Sizes for AWS Clusters
Last year, Instaclustr upgraded its support for high throughput, compute intensive nodes on top of the AWS platform. This involved switching away from the aging c3 instance types and onto the newer c5d instance type. The new c5d instances provide better performance, better compute power and is better value for money than the c3 instances....
Learn MoreBen SlaterFebruary 27, 2019 -
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Updated Apache Kafka® Benchmarking
Late last year we published our first round of benchmarking for Apache Kafka running on our managed service. At the time, we flagged an issue that the approach we adopted did not balance reads and writes to a cluster. We’ve now completed another round of benchmarking with a balanced read and write load and...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJanuary 14, 2019