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Running CoreOS official AMIs with internal storage on AWS
At Instaclustr, we host some of our customers' nodes on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Depending on customer's system requirements, we may deploy multiple different instances on AWS: EBS-backed nodes and instance-store nodes.
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 11, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
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Connecting to a Cassandra cluster using TLS/SSL
Overview Making connections to a Cassandra cluster that uses SSL can be a little tricker than usual, however properly securing your client connections with SSL is important, especially if you are connecting to your cluster via the Internet or an untrusted network. Pre-requisites Before we get started you’ll first need to install the Java Cryptography Extensions....
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 08, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Big Data Challenge
The Big Data Challenge Avoiding the challenges and pitfalls of Apache Cassandra implementation Executive summary Big Data is a different problem that requires a different data storage and management solution. It’s data that is too big, moves too fast, and doesn’t fit standard relational data structure. Apache Cassandra has emerged as a winning solution for...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 07, 2016 -
- Technical
Instaclustr Engineering & Support Team 2015 Review
2015 was a huge year for Instaclustr from just about every perspective – we grew from something like 50 nodes under management to over 500, from low double digit customers to hundreds now in production and our team grew from 5 engineers to nearing on 30. Of course, this kind of growth has required (and...
Learn MoreBen SlaterFebruary 04, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
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 -
- Apache Cassandra
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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 Cassandra
- 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 -
- Apache Cassandra
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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