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- Elasticsearch
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Instaclustr Announces Customer-Initiated Resize For Apache Kafka® and Elasticsearch™
Instaclustr, delivering reliability at scale through fully managed open source data technologies, today announced the release of any-to-any resizing for Kafka and Elasticsearch clusters on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. Releasing this new functionality allows customers to dynamically resize their clusters without help from the Instaclustr Support team, providing customers a quicker resolution time. There are...
Learn MoreInstaclustrApril 27, 2021 -
- Technical
- Redis
Redis™ Mirroring Now in Preview on the Instaclustr Managed Platform
Today Instaclustr is pleased to announce that our Redis Mirroring solution is available in preview with Instaclustr for Redis on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. Mirroring enables businesses to cope with unexpected events such as cloud outages by allowing for a resilient, geographically distributed cache architecture that can handle high availability requirements. Additionally, a geographically distributed...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMarch 30, 2021 -
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Complete Overview of the ELK Stack
Answering Key Questions About the ELK Stack Organizations are increasingly turning to the ELK Stack to search and analyze massive data volumes. ELK is an acronym derived from the three technologies that formed the initial stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Some are incorporating the stack’s search capabilities into apps and websites, providing simple, fast ways...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMarch 29, 2021 -
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Apache Kafka MirrorMaker 2 (MM2) Part 2: Practice
In part 1 of this blog series, we focused on MirrorMaker 2 theory (Kafka replication, architecture, components and terminology) and invent some MirrorMaker 2 rules. In this part, we will be more practical, and try out Instaclustr’s managed MirrorMaker 2 service and test the rules out with some experiments.
Learn MorePaul BrebnerMarch 18, 2021 -
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Apache Kafka MirrorMaker 2 (MM2) Part 1: Theory
In this new two-part blog series we’ll turn our gaze to the newest version of MirrorMaker 2 (MM2), the Apache Kafka cross-cluster mirroring, or replication, technology. MirrorMaker 2 is built on top of the Kafka Connect framework for increased reliability and scalability and is suitable for more demanding geo-replication use cases including migration, special purpose...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerMarch 16, 2021 -
- Technical
- Redis
Redis™ vs Memcached
Introduction Caching is an important step in increasing the performance of many applications. It can be difficult to determine which caching solution is the best for your use case. Two likely contenders that will often make an appearance in your search for the answer are Redis vs Memcached. In the green corner is Memcached (est....
Learn MoreShane DucksburyFebruary 25, 2021 -
- 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 -
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Elastic Beats and Where They Fit With ELK Stack
After my last blog post about Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, I wanted to investigate something else I kept coming across during my Logstash research: Elastic Beats. Beats initially appeared to me to be a way to send data to Elasticsearch, the same as Logstash, leading me to wonder how Beats is different and where it...
Learn MoreShane DucksburyFebruary 22, 2021 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
- News
Security Advisory: CVE-2020-17516
Earlier this week, a vulnerability was published to the Cassandra users mailing list which describes a flaw in the way Apache Cassandra nodes perform encryption in some configurations. The vulnerability description is reproduced here: “Description: When using ‘dc’ or ‘rack’ internode_encryption setting, a Cassandra instance allows both encrypted and unencrypted connections. A misconfigured node or...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 07, 2021