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- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Jackson Fleming
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Jackson Fleming – Software Engineer, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I’m a Software Engineer in the Admin Services team within our Engineering department. We build and maintain the tools and infrastructure that our support staff (which we refer to...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 23, 2021 -
- Technical
- News
Instaclustr Terraform Provider Added to Terraform Provider Registry
Instaclustr is pleased to announce that our popular Terraform provider is now published to the official Terraform providers registry. This makes the provider publicly available for browsing and searching via the registry interface, as well as available to install via the CLI. Terraform is a popular framework that enables infrastructure as code (IAC) capabilities, allowing...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 02, 2021 -
- Technical
What Is Elasticsearch™?
Elasticsearch is an open source scalable search and analytics engine. It takes the open source search engine Apache Lucene and enables it to scale across many machines in a cluster to handle large volumes of data at high speed. Much like the index at the back of a book, the core data structure of Lucene...
Learn MoreInstaclustrDecember 21, 2020 -
- Technical
ELK Stack to EKK Stack (Elastic, Kibana, and Apache Kafka®): COVID-19 Data Analysis
A lot of people new to data science don’t know what to do after they write their first Python or R script. While that web scraper may have run well on your laptop—one time, you need to think about a streaming architecture that can handle multiple datasets. You need to not only store the results...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 15, 2020 -
- Technical
Understanding the Impacts of the Native Transport Requests Change Introduced in Apache Cassandra 3.11.5
Summary Recently, Cassandra made changes to the Native Transport Requests (NTR) queue behaviour. Through our performance testing, we found the new NTR change to be good for clusters that have a constant load causing the NTR queue to block. Under the new mechanism the queue no longer blocks, but throttles the load based on queue...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 01, 2020 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Patricia Tantow
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Patricia Tantow, Chief Marketing Officer, Instaclustr What does your role at Instaclustr entail? As the Chief Marketing Officer, I am responsible for designing marketing programs that drive customer growth, engagement, and retention. I am also in charge of the company’s global...
Learn MoreInstaclustrAugust 25, 2020 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Availability of Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch™ on GCP and Azure
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability of its Elasticsearch Managed Service on the GCP and Azure clouds. Following the recent release of the Elasticsearch service on the Instaclustr Managed Platform in March, we have been working on continuously enhancing the quality of the service, and increasing the breadth of its features and supported platforms....
Learn MoreInstaclustrJune 18, 2020 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
General Availability of Managed Apache Kafka® Connect
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the general availability of our Managed Apache Kafka Connect offering on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. This service was tested with a select group of early access program customers late last year and since then has been put through its paces in the public preview. It has now passed our stringent...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJune 09, 2020 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Arran Dengate
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work life. This time it is Arran Dengate, Senior Technical Operations Engineer What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I’m a Senior Technical Operations Engineer. The most important part of my job is solving problems on customer clusters. When the fleet is quiet, it can involve giving advice,...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMay 13, 2020