Open source has been
our passion Since day 1
…and continues to be our entire focus
“Between our project committers, developing incredible new features and engaging with the community at conferences and events all over the world, we are excited to put NetApp Instaclustr at the forefront of taking open source to incredible new heights.”
Our latest blogs
Scaling agent systems with Apache Kafka and A2A (Part 6): The Quartz Chronometer Agent - An Example using the default A2A protocols
Explore an A2A demo using the Agent2Agent protocol, the official A2A Java reference server, JSON-RPC, and SSE for streaming task updates.
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October 8, 2026
By Paul Brebner
MCP Gateway RBAC tutorial: Add Role-Based Access Control to your AI agent with Auth0 and Apache Cassandra
Learn how to add Auth0 authentication and role-based access control (RBAC) to an AI agent with MCP Gateway, Access Control Lists, and an Apache Cassandra backend. This step-by-step tutorial shows how to configure OAuth, map roles, control tool access, and enforce least-privilege access without changing chatbot code.
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September 28, 2026
By Ramya Ravi
Keep your engineers working on the roadmap, not the database
DBGorilla connects to your Instaclustr-managed PostgreSQL database in minutes. It combines data from Instaclustr’s monitoring APIs with signals from the database itself, giving it the operational context to improve every query and identify risks before they become problems.
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September 25, 2026
By Sayan Saha
Vector Search in Apache Cassandra for RAG Retrieval
Learn how Apache Cassandra vector search supports RAG retrieval with native embeddings, ANN queries, and no separate vector database.
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September 23, 2026
By Mariah McLaughlin
We’re helping develop the latest and greatest in Open source
The incredible power of the open source community is that it never stops innovating – and we’re proud to be active contributors across several projects.
Here’s what we’ve been up to.
Our contributions to open source projects
Foundation memberships and sponsorships
Instaclustr + The Open SourceCommunity
There’s nothing better than meeting community members face-to-face and talking open source together. That’s why you’ll find us speaking and mingling at community events all over the globe.
Meet with us
Conferences
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Sydney, Australia | July 29-30
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Melbourne, Australia | July 24-25
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Amsterdam, Netherlands | August 28-29
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Vienna, Austria | September 16-18
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San Jose, California | September 8-10
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Minneapolis, Minnesota | September 11-14
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Raleigh, North Carolina | October 12-14
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Seattle, Washington | November 17-21
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Brussels, Belgium | February 2026
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Napa, California | February 2026
Interviews with community
