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Anomalia Machina 8: Production Application Deployment With Kubernetes
In the previous blog we explored deploying the Anomalia Machina application on Kubernetes with the help of AWS EKS. In the recent blogs (Anomalia Machina 5 and Anomalia Machina 6), we enhanced the observability of the Anomalia Machina Application using two Open Source technologies: Prometheus for distributed monitoring of metrics such as throughput and latency;...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerMarch 05, 2019 -
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SLAs – Watch Out for the Shades of Gray
The Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an integral part of an MSP’s (Managed Service Provider) business. Its purpose is to define the scope of services that the MSP offers, including: guarantees on metrics relevant to their business and technology customer responsibilities issue management compensation commitment when MSPs fail to deliver on the SLA. It should...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMarch 04, 2019 -
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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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Instaclustr Insights: Meet Brooke Thorley
Name Brooke Thorley Role VP of Customer Success Location Canberra, Australia You recently stepped into the role of VP of Customer Success, what does that entail? As the title implies, a lot of interfacing with our customers! In a nutshell, it means making sure our worldwide customers are getting what they need from Instaclustr, whether...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 25, 2019 -
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Instaclustr Announces the Availability of Apache Kafka® REST Proxy on Instaclustr Managed Platform
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability of the Kafka REST Proxy as an option when deploying Kafka on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. The Kafka REST Proxy allows applications to connect and communicate with a Kafka cluster over HTTP. The service exposes a set of REST endpoints to which applications can make REST API calls...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 21, 2019 -
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Anomalia Machina 7: Kubernetes Cluster Creation and Application Deployment
Kubernetes—Greek: κυβερνήτης = Helmsman If you are Greek hero about to embark on an epic aquatic quest (encountering one-eyed rock-throwing monsters, unpleasant weather, a detour to the underworld, tempting sirens, angry gods, etc.) then having a trusty helmsman is mandatory (even though the helmsman survived the Cyclops, like all of Odysseus’s companions, he eventually came...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerFebruary 11, 2019 -
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Instaclustr Insights: Meet Christophe Schmitz, VP of Consulting
Name Christophe Schmitz Role VP of Consulting Location Canberra, Australia As Instaclustr’s VP of Consulting, what does your typical week look like? A lot of my time is spent communicating and engaging with customers (and prospective customers). I’ll be on sales calls with businesses all over the world, listening to their data stack goals...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJanuary 31, 2019 -
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Anomalia Machina 6: Application Tracing with OpenTracing—Massively Scalable Anomaly Detection with Apache Kafka® and Apache Cassandra®
In the previous blog (Anomalia Machina 5 – Application Monitoring with Prometheus) we explored how to better understand an Open Source system using Prometheus for distributed metrics monitoring. In this blog we have a look at another way of increasing visibility into a system using OpenTracing for distributed tracing. 1. A History of Tracing Over...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerJanuary 15, 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