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Helping you to securely deploy Cassandra
We’re constantly striving to ensure that Instaclustr is the most secure, easy and reliable way to run Apache Cassandra. This post outlines some recent changes we have made to enforce tighter security for the Cassandra clusters we deploy for our customers. A recent release of our provisioning system has further tightened security arrangements when clusters...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 18, 2015 -
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Common Apache Cassandra Data Modelling Traps
Part of Instaclustr’s service is helping our customers make better use of Apache Cassandra. This post outlines some of the most common issues that we see and help our customers overcome. At Instaclustr, we often work with our customers to help diagnose and correct issues with their Cassandra data models. This occurs either as part...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 03, 2015 -
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Instaclustr Supports Apache Cassandra 2.1, DSE 4.7
Instaclustr now supports the latest production-ready versions of Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. The Apache Cassandra project recently released Cassandra 2.16 and announced that the 2.1 series was now considered ready for production use. In addition, DataStax released their first Cassandra 2.1-based release Data Stax Enterprise v4.7. Instaclustr has moved quickly to make these, and other...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJuly 06, 2015 -
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Apache Cassandra authentication and encryption made easy
In the past week we have released some major enhancements to the Instaclustr Apache Cassandra provisioning system. These are a major benefit to all users of our service but in particular have been designed to make it easy to use Instaclustr from Heroku. Many users of Instaclustr have requirements for increased security levels for their...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJune 11, 2015 -
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Further Monitoring and Security Enhancements
At Instaclustr we are constantly enhancing our monitoring and security systems based on learnings from the large and varied Cassandra deployments we manage in production. We will shortly be releasing some significant improvements that include minor changes to customer clusters. We have recently replaced our monitoring architecture with a Reimann-based system. This change was designed...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJune 02, 2015 -
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Continuous improvement
Our engineering team operates on an agile methodology with two-week sprints that result in a new release. This allows us to regularly update our platform with new features for our customers and keep our managed environments up to date with the latest releases and patches. Since a major upgrade to our management system was released...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 16, 2015 -
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100% availability or your money back
Instaclustr now offers availability SLAs of up to 100% with associated service credits of up to 100% of monthly fees. We have recently reviewed our SLAs and decided that our previous SLA levels did not reflect the performance that we expect of ourselves or that our customers need for the mission-critical usage of Cassandra. We...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 01, 2015 -
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Apache Cassandra Disk Usage
We’ve been having some conversations lately about Cassandra disk usage. Specifically, how full is too full on a Cassandra cluster?
Learn MoreBen SlaterApril 24, 2015 -
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Pragmatic Availability with Apache Cassandra
Put together, all this means that Cassandra gives you fantastic ability to pragmatically balance your application functionality, availability requirements and infrastructure spend and achieve your real availability requirements at the lowest possible cost. At Instaclustr, we’re always happy to work with our customers to help them understand these trade-offs in detail and come to a solution that meets their unique requirements.
Learn MoreBen SlaterApril 03, 2015