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- Apache Cassandra
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Instaclustr Webinar: Japanese Apache Cassandra® Community
Instaclustr Webinar for the Japanese Cassandra Community Details Webinar (Online Seminar) for the Cassandra Community in Japan. Presenter Ben Bromhead, CTO and co-founder of Instaclustr and Apache Cassandra MVP. Date & Time 10:30AM-12:00PM February 2016, JST. Cost Free with registration of attendance This will be the first time the webinar has been held in Japan...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 04, 2016 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Brooke Jensen
Name Brooke Jensen @_brookejensen https://au.linkedin.com/in/brookejensen1 Role VP Technical Operations & Customer Services. I work on all our internal applications such as provisioning, monitoring and console, as well as providing on call support and consulting to our customers. Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? I started in IT right after I...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 02, 2016 -
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Apache Cassandra Compaction Strategies
Cassandra is optimized for writing large amounts of data very quickly. Cassandra writes all incoming data in an append-only manner in internal files called SSTables. These SSTables hence contain newly inserted data and updates/deletes of previously inserted data. Cassandra Compaction is a process of reconciling various copies of data spread across distinct SSTables. Cassandra performs...
Learn MoreAnup ShirolkarJanuary 27, 2016 -
- Apache Spark
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Multi data center Apache Spark™ and Apache Cassandra benchmark
Goal The aim of this benchmark is to compare performances between a one-data-center setting, where Spark and Cassandra are collocated, versus a two-data-center setting where Spark is running on the second data center. The idea behind a two-data-center setting is to use the first data-center (DC1) to serve Cassandra reads/writes while using the second data-center...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJanuary 07, 2016 -
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Apache Cassandra 2.2 – 5 things you need to know
Today Instaclustr has released beta support for Apache Cassandra 2.2 across all our plans. This article goes under the hood to explore some of the key changes and features in this latest version.
Learn MoreInstaclustrDecember 17, 2015 -
- Apache Cassandra
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Monitoring Apache Cassandra® and IT infrastructure with Riemann
Efficient and effective monitoring of IT infrastructure is a common challenge faced by most modern organizations. This is particularly relevant with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies as they strive to provide the best possible front end user experience as possible, with the lowest or shortest downtime.
Learn MoreInstaclustrDecember 13, 2015 -
- Technical
What’s new for November!
Spark Jobserver Spark Jobserver provides the ability to upload and initiate Spark jobs on your cluster via http and https, eliminating the need to install Spark on your workstation and simplifying network configuration. See the step-by-step tutorial here. Column family level monitoring in our console and API The monitoring view directly in our console now...
Learn MoreInstaclustrDecember 01, 2015 -
- Apache Spark
- Apache Cassandra
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Apache Spark™ Streaming and Cassandra
We have just posted a step by step tutorial on our support portal on using our Managed Apache Spark and Cassandra offering to set up Spark Streaming to receive and summarise data from Apache Kafka and then save it to Cassandra. Developing this example got me thinking – what are the solution patterns where it makes sense...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 17, 2015 -
- Technical
What’s New: October 2015
The last month or has seen a raft of new features helping to ensure that Instaclustr is the best service possible for our customers. Here’s a round of what we’ve released: Spark Preview Release: Apache Spark and Cassandra together from one, trusted provider. See https://www.instaclustr.com/managed-apache-spark-on-cassandra/ for the details on this. New AWS EBS Backed Instance...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 05, 2015