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- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Demystifying Cassandra’s broadcast_address
When configuring Apache Cassandra to work in a new environment or with a new application or service we sometimes find ourselves asking “What’s the difference between broadcast_address and broadcast_rpc_address again?”. The difference is broadcast_address relates to gossip and node to node communications, whereas broadcast_rpc_address is associated with client connections. Read on for more details. The Cassandra configuration file has a few interdependent properties...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 11, 2016 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Christophe Schmitz
Name Christophe Schmitz Role Senior Software engineer Location Canberra, Australia What has your role as Senior Software Engineer at Instaclustr involved? In the last six months I have mostly been involved in a Cassandra Consulting role, helping our clients to deliver scalable platforms where Cassandra plays a central role. Before that, I was designing and...
Learn MoreInstaclustrSeptember 30, 2016 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr APIs
Instaclustr has two REST APIs that are available for our customers: A monitoring API that provides programmatic access to the same Cassandra monitoring information that is available through our management console; A provisioning API that enables provision and destruction of clusters and associated objects (e.g. firewall rules, VPC connections) Both APIs use an API key...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 19, 2016 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Encrypted EBS Support
Instaclustr has recently released support for provisioning Amazon Web Services based Cassandra clusters with encrypted EBS and encrypted backups. This support brings two big benefits to our customers: By utilising encrypted EBS (plus encrypted backups), customers may be able to meet compliance requirements that mandate encryption of data at rest. Customers always retain control of...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 08, 2016 -
- Popular
Instaclustr Increases Open Source Commitment
At Instaclustr we’re strong believers that open source is the future of software. The key technologies we support (Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark) are open source and our management systems are built on open source technology. As such, we believe that it’s vital that companies such as ourselves that rely on open source contribute fairly...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 06, 2016 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr Cluster Health
We’re happy to announce that our first release of the Instaclustr Health Page is now live on the Instaclustr console. Instaclustr’s Managed Service has long in included regular manual health checks of cluster to advise customer of issues with their use of Cassandra that have the potential to impact future stability. We’ve long wanted to...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 02, 2016 -
- Technical
Announcing availability of ScyllaDB on the Instaclustr Managed Service
*Please note due to extremely limited customer demand, we no longer support ScyllaDB. Please contact our Sales Team should you have any further questions. Instaclustr has released a preview of ScyllaDB on the Instaclustr Managed Service on Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure, and IBM SoftLayer. Scylla is an Apache Cassandra compatible data store implemented in C++...
Learn MoreInstaclustrAugust 30, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Deep Diving cassandra-stress – Part 3 (Using YAML Profiles)
In the previous two posts of this series (Part 1 and Part 2) I covered some of the basic commands of cassandra-stress. In this post I will start looking at the use of the stress YAML file for more advanced stress scenarios, particularly where you want to run stress against a schema that matches one...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 24, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Deep Diving into cassandra-stress – Part 2 (Mixed Command)
This is the second of a series of articles explain the operations of cassandra-stress. See here for Part 1. This series of blogs has been created as part of my prep for my Cassandra summit talk ‘Load Testing Cassandra Applications’. In this post we’ll examine the operation of the mixed command in Cassandra stress and...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 23, 2016