Technical Technical — Cassandra
Friday 14th February 2020 by Ben Bromhead
In this series of blog posts, we’ll take a meandering tour of some of the important changes, cool features, and nice ergonomics that are coming with Apache Cassandra 4.0. In part 1 we focussed on Cassandra 4.0 stability and testing, and Part 2 around virtual tables. In this part we will learn about Netty Transport Framework […]
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Friday 14th February 2020 by Instaclustr
Security has been at the forefront of Instaclustr’s systems and operations since day one. We understand that you trust us with your valuable data and we take that responsibility very seriously. As part of our security focus, several of our offerings are PCI certified and we have been SOC 2 compliant for several years. Both […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Tuesday 4th February 2020 by Ben Bromhead
The last major version release of Apache Cassandra was 3.11.0 and that was more than 2 years ago in 2017. So what has the Cassandra developer community been doing over the last 2 years? Well let me tell you, it’s good real good. It’s Apache Cassandra 4.0! It’s also close, and with the release of […]
News
Saturday 1st February 2020 by Paul Aubrey
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the availability of the Instaclustr Terraform Provider, which enables users of Terraform to seamlessly integrate with our Instaclustr Managed Platform. Teams using Terraform to manage their infrastructure as code can now provision, manage, and deprovision clusters running on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. The ability to use Terraform with Instaclustr has […]
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Thursday 9th January 2020 by Peter Lilley
The destructive and frightening bushfires in South Eastern Australia have to date burned more than 15 million acres, taken the lives of civilians and first responders, and represent a huge loss for the entire country. In Canberra, where Instaclustr’s Australian office is located, the fires have—thankfully—not directly impacted the city, and forecasts remain positive. However, […]
Technical Technical — Cassandra
Wednesday 8th January 2020 by Ben Bromhead
The last major version release of Apache Cassandra was 3.11.0 and that was more than 2 years ago in 2017. So what has the Cassandra developer community been doing over the last 2 years? Well let me tell you, it’s good, real good. It’s Apache Cassandra 4.0! The final release is not here as yet, […]
Team
Monday 6th January 2020 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members work life. This time it is Anil Inamdar, Director – U.S. Consulting Sales & Delivery. Anil is based out of San Francisco Bay Area, California. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? My role at Instaclustr is to scale out our U.S. consulting practice. We already have […]
Technical Technical — Kafka
Monday 6th January 2020 by Paul Brebner
This blog provides an overview around the two fundamental concepts in Apache Kafka : Topics and Partitions. While developing and scaling our Anomalia Machina application we have discovered that distributed applications using Kafka and Cassandra clusters require careful tuning to achieve close to linear scalability, and critical variables included the number of Kafka topics and […]
Feature Releases Technical — Cassandra
Tuesday 3rd December 2019 by Paul Brebner
This is the third and final part of a mini-series looking at the Instaclustr Provisioning API, including the new Open Service Broker. In the last blog we demonstrated a complete end to end example using the Instaclustr Provisioning API, which included dynamic Cassandra cluster resizing. This blog picks up where we left off and explores […]
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Monday 2nd December 2019 by Paul Brebner
ApacheCon Europe, October 22-24, 2019, Kulturbrauerei Berlin #ACEU19 https://aceu19.apachecon.com/ What’s better than one ApacheCon? Another ApacheCon! This year there were two Apache Conferences, one in Las Vegas and then again in Berlin. They were similar but different. What were some differences between ApacheCon Berlin and Las Vegas? The location. In contrast to the hyper-real gambling […]
Team
Monday 2nd December 2019 by Instaclustr
Name Evita Davies Role VP – Finance Location Canberra, Australia You’re the VP – Finance – what are your responsibilities? Alongside my team, I look over client accounts and billing, corporate taxes, and all other finances and reporting across the entirety of our global operations (which now include a few different Instaclustr entities). What are […]
Feature Releases Technical — Kafka
Monday 2nd December 2019 by Adam Zegelin
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the Early Access Program (EAP) for the fully managed Apache Kafka Connect offering on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. What is Kafka Connect? Apache Kafka Connect is an open source component of the larger Apache Kafka project and code base. There are several ways through which you can write to, and […]