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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 -
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Instaclustr Experience – Internship Blog: Senith De Silva
My name is Senith De Silva. I’m a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Canberra. On September 2018, I started my internship at Instaclustr and it’s been an amazing opportunity to be part of the team. At the beginning, I was given a set of clearly defined plan for the duration of 13 weeks...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJanuary 09, 2019 -
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Advanced Node Replace
Instaclustr has a number of internal tools and procedures that help us keep Cassandra clusters healthy. One of those tools allows us to replace the instance backing a Cassandra node while keeping the IP’s and data. Dynamic Resizing released in June 2017 uses technology developed for that tool to allow customers to scale Cassandra clusters vertically based on demand.
Learn MoreBen SlaterJanuary 03, 2019 -
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Anomalia Machina 5: Application Monitoring with Prometheus—Massively Scalable Anomaly Detection with Apache Kafka® and Apache Cassandra®
1. Introduction In order to scale Anomalia Machina we plan to run the application (load generator and detector pipeline) on multiple EC2 instances. We are working on using Kubernetes (AWS EKS) to automate this, and progress so far is described in this webinar. However, before we can easily run a Kubernetes deployed application at scale...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerDecember 19, 2018 -
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Instaclustr Experience – Internship Blog: Hannah Vu
INTERN AT INSTACLUSTR! My name is Hannah Vu, I am a final-year student of Bachelor of Software Engineering at the University of Canberra. During my last semester, before I graduate, I was concerned that I really needed to prepare to jumpstart my career. During that time, I read about the Knowledge Exchange Placement program advertised...
Learn MoreInstaclustrDecember 11, 2018 -
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What We Learned at AWS re:invent 2018
Last week, 11 intrepid team members from Instaclustr traveled from the corners of the world to brave 140+ hours in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, Amazon’s flagship conference for AWS and one of the biggest cloud conferences in the world. Over the course of the five days we interacted spoke with over 2000 attendees, were...
Learn MoreBen BromheadDecember 07, 2018