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- Team
Instaclustr Insights – Meet Anup Shirolkar
Name Anup Shirolkar Role Consultant Location Canberra, Australia What’s your role at Instaclustr? I provide consulting services to Instaclustr customers – analyzing Cassandra and Kafka deployments for ways to meaningfully improve performance, scalability, operations, and security. I’m involved in customer engagements through meetings, on-site visits, and calls. I also contribute to the development of...
Learn MoreInstaclustrSeptember 04, 2019 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Apache Cassandra Data Partitioning
When using Apache Cassandra a strong understanding of the concept and role of partitions is crucial for design, performance, and scalability. This blog covers the key information you need to know about partitions to get started with Cassandra. It covers topics including how to define partitions, how Cassandra uses them, what are the best practices and known issues.
Learn MoreAnup ShirolkarAugust 29, 2019 -
- Dev Rel
- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
- Popular
- Technical
Instaclustr delivers improved Apache Cassandra price and performance with AWS I3en Instance Types
Instaclustr has released support for a new AWS I3en instance type with our Apache Cassandra & Spark Managed Service. I3en is the latest generation of AWS’s “Storage Optimised” family of EC2 instances designed to support I/O intensive workloads, backed by low-latency SSD. The i3en family of instances also are built upon the new generation of...
Learn MoreJohn Del CastilloAugust 28, 2019 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Amrutha Shanbhag
Name Amrutha Shanbhag Role Senior Software Engineer Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? I started right after university, after earning my Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering. Through a campus placement program, I received a job offer as a software developer at a large mobile...
Learn MoreInstaclustrAugust 12, 2019 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights – Meet Carrie Powick
Name Carrie Powick Role Senior Software Engineer Location Canberra, Australia What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I’m a senior software engineer, usually working directly with the Java codebase. I’m currently in the General Scrum, so we look at fixing bugs and making enhancements to the overall product. It really involves the full gamut of...
Learn MoreInstaclustrAugust 02, 2019 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights – Meet Rony Rahman
Name Rony Rahman Role Senior Software Engineer Location Canberra, Australia How long have you been at Instaclustr? I’m brand new – just started about two and a half month ago. As a Senior Software Engineer, what are your responsibilities? I’m currently leading the development of a new feature Instaclustr is providing – a Kubernetes...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJuly 11, 2019 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Popular
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Geospatial Anomaly Detection (Terra-Locus Anomalia Machina) Part 4: Apache Cassandra, meet Apache Lucene—The Cassandra Lucene Index Plugin!
Massively Scalable Geospatial Anomaly Detection with Apache Kafka and Cassandra After being Lost in (3D) Space in the last blog, in this final part of the geospatial anomaly detection series, we come back down to Earth and try out the Cassandra Lucene Plugin (this was our destination all along, but it’s a long way to...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerJuly 08, 2019 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Popular
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Geospatial Anomaly Detection (Terra-Locus Anomalia Machina) Part 3: 3D Geohashes (and Drones)
Massively Scalable Geospatial Anomaly Detection with Apache Kafka and Cassandra In this blog we discover that we’ve been trapped in Flatland, and encounter a Dimension of the Third Kind. We introduce 3D geohashes, see how far up (and down) we can go (geostationary satellite orbits, the moon, and beyond), revisit Cassandra partition sizes, and come...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerJuly 08, 2019 -
- Technical
Custom VPC feature provides new deployment options for the Instaclustr Managed Platform
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability of the Custom VPC deployment feature. Are you wondering what does “Custom VPC” mean? This is a fair question and frankly we have struggled to come up with a good name for this feature. This capability has a variety of applications and is a way for teams to...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJuly 02, 2019