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- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Apache Cassandra Security
Apache Cassandra security has hit the news lately with a benevolent hacker attempting to warn owners of unsecured Cassandra databases about their exposure (see https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-benevolent-hacker-is-warning-owners-of-unsecured-cassandra-databases/). Apache Cassandra Security At Instaclustr, we take security very seriously. We were confident that our default configurations would not allow access to this type of scan. We have used our central...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJanuary 31, 2017 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Apache Cassandra: The Big Data Foundation
Introduction To state the obvious, we here at Instaclustr are massive fans of Apache Cassandra. We have built our company and our managed service around this database technology and the awesomeness of its capability. There are a lot of well documented use cases and amazing companies providing examples of how they are using open source...
Learn MoreBen BromheadJanuary 31, 2017 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr Managed Service adds Apache Cassandra Lucene Index Support
Instaclustr is pleased to announce support for Stratio’s Cassandra Lucene Index as part of the Instaclustr Managed Service for Apache Cassandra. The Cassandra Lucene Index extends Cassandra’s native secondary index capability to include Lucene search capabilities including full-text search, relevance searches, and geospatial capabilities. With the addition of support for the Cassandra Lucene Index, and existing...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJanuary 12, 2017 -
- Feature Releases
- Popular
Scaling with Open Source Software
Overview As we close out what has been an exciting year for Instaclustr, which has culminated in our recent announcement of a $7m private investment round, I thought it was timely to provide some insight into our company and plans for 2017 and beyond. Over the last 3 years, for the most part, we have...
Learn MorePeter LilleyDecember 15, 2016 -
- Technical
Instaclustr Engineering Year in Review
This year has been another massive step forward for Instaclustr Engineering. In addition to the many important new features added to our product set, working with the team you can really feel the benefits of the experience we’ve accumulated and the maturing of our processes. On the technical operations side, we continue to hear that...
Learn MoreBen SlaterDecember 15, 2016 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Adam Zegelin
Name Adam Zegelin Role Instaclustr Co-founder and Senior Software Engineer Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? It was a natural progression of sorts. I have been interested in computers from an early age. I am also a causal PC game player, but I’ve always been more interested in how video...
Learn MoreInstaclustrDecember 01, 2016 -
- Apache Spark
- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark™ Now Available on Google Cloud Platform
Instaclustr is pleased to announce immediate beta availability of our Managed Cassandra and Spark offerings on the Google Cloud Platform. Instaclustr is the leading provider of Apache Cassandra and Spark as a managed service with over 6 million node-hours of experience managing these technologies on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM SoftLayer. Instaclustr’s expansion...
Learn MoreInstaclustrNovember 27, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Cassandra Collections: Hidden Tombstones and How to Avoid Them
Overview Multi-value data types (sets, lists and maps) are a powerful feature of Cassandra, aiding you in denormalisation while allowing you to still retrieve and set data at a very fine-grained level. However, some of Cassandra’s behaviour when handling these data types is not always as expected and can cause issues. In particular, there can...
Learn MoreInstaclustrNovember 23, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Upgrading Instametrics to Apache Cassandra 3
Monitoring at Scale Series In this series of blogs, explore the various ways we pushed our metrics pipeline—mainly our Apache Cassandra® cluster named Instametrics—to the limit, and how we went about reducing the load it was experiencing on a daily basis over the course of several years. Beginning in 2015 and up until now, discover...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 22, 2016