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What’s Coming in Cassandra 6? Key Apache Cassandra CEPs to Watch

Explore five Apache Cassandra Enhancement Proposals (CEPs 38, 45, 49, 60, and 62) that could shape the future of Cassandra 6 features, including cluster management, data consistency, compression, and configuration. Learn what's coming to Cassandra and why it matters for operators.

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July 7, 2026

By Mariah McLaughlin

MCP Gateway tutorial: Connect an AI Agent to Apache Kafka and HTTP server backends

Step-by-step MCP Gateway tutorial showing how to connect an AI agent to Apache Kafka and HTTP server backends through the NetApp Instaclustr MCP Gateway.

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June 30, 2026

By Ramya Ravi

NetApp Instaclustr for MCP Gateway Is Here: Smarter AI Data Access Starts Now

What is MCP Gateway? Learn how NetApp Instaclustr provides a managed MCP Gateway that acts as a secure AI data access layer for enterprise AI agents, tools, and data services.

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June 30, 2026

By Chris Carter

OpenSearch 3.7: Faster vectors and smarter hybrid search

OpenSearch 3.7 adds z-score and RRF to the Hybrid Optimizer (82 variants) and up to 5.5x faster k-NN vector retrieval via docvalue_fields. No reindexing required.

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June 19, 2026

By Kassian Wren

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What’s Coming in Cassandra 6? Key Apache Cassandra CEPs to Watch
July 7, 2026 | By Mariah McLaughlin
Explore five Apache Cassandra Enhancement Proposals (CEPs 38, 45, 49, 60, and 62) that could shape the future of Cassandra 6 features, including cluster management, data consistency, compression, and configuration. Learn what's coming to Cassandra and why it matters for operators.
July 7, 2026 | By Mariah McLaughlin
MCP Gateway tutorial: Connect an AI Agent to Apache Kafka and HTTP server backends
June 30, 2026 | By Ramya Ravi
Step-by-step MCP Gateway tutorial showing how to connect an AI agent to Apache Kafka and HTTP server backends through the NetApp Instaclustr MCP Gateway.
June 30, 2026 | By Ramya Ravi
NetApp Instaclustr for MCP Gateway Is Here: Smarter AI Data Access Starts Now
June 30, 2026 | By Chris Carter
What is MCP Gateway? Learn how NetApp Instaclustr provides a managed MCP Gateway that acts as a secure AI data access layer for enterprise AI agents, tools, and data services.
June 30, 2026 | By Chris Carter
OpenSearch 3.7: Faster vectors and smarter hybrid search
June 19, 2026 | By Kassian Wren
OpenSearch 3.7 adds z-score and RRF to the Hybrid Optimizer (82 variants) and up to 5.5x faster k-NN vector retrieval via docvalue_fields. No reindexing required.
June 19, 2026 | By Kassian Wren
Instaclustr product update: June 2026
June 18, 2026 | By Vinh Ngo
The last few months have been busy at NetApp Instaclustr as we’ve released some great new features for our customers, including AI Search for OpenSearch, Kafka Client Telemetry, ClickHouse integration with Amazon FSx, and Cluster DNS for Cassandra and Kafka on AWS—check out our latest product update for all the details!
June 18, 2026 | By Vinh Ngo
Kafka® Streams error handling, Part 2: How to catch and fix bad records with KIP-1034 and LLMs
June 15, 2026 | By Paul Brebner
Learn Kafka Streams error handling with KIP-1034 dead letter queues and LLMs. See how to catch deserialization errors and repair bad records in Java.
June 15, 2026 | By Paul Brebner
How to build an Apache Kafka® Streams application with KIP-1034 Dead Letter Queues and LLM repair, part 1: Introduction and streams topology
June 15, 2026 | By Paul Brebner
Build a Kafka Streams application that fixes itself. Learn how KIP-1034 dead letter queues and LLMs handle bad records for real-time error handling in Java.
June 15, 2026 | By Paul Brebner
What are Asynchronous Data Inserts in ClickHouse®
June 9, 2026 | By Vikas Kumar
Discover how asynchronous data inserts in ClickHouse improve ingestion, server-side batching, and stability for modern streaming workloads.
June 9, 2026 | By Vikas Kumar
Optimizing AI Search in OpenSearch: A practical guide
June 5, 2026 | By Kassian Wren
Learn how to build production-ready AI search in OpenSearch. This practical guide covers OpenSearch vector search, hybrid search, k-NN search, Lucene vs. Faiss, cluster tuning, and measuring search quality
June 5, 2026 | By Kassian Wren
How to create a hybrid search pipeline in OpenSearch®
June 4, 2026 | By Kassian Wren
Learn how to build a hybrid search in OpenSearch. This comprehensive guide covers ingest pipelines, index design, post-processing, and a Python implementation.
June 4, 2026 | By Kassian Wren

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