Chair of the Board
Ben Levin founded Level Equity and is a partner and the co-CEO of Level Equity Management, LLC. He has been an investor in growing media, software, and services companies since 1997 and is a frequent speaker on the growth equity industry. Prior to Level Equity he was Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners and previously held positions with Mentmore Holdings Corporation, the private investment arm of a New York City-based family office, and in the mergers and acquisitions division of Salomon Brothers. Ben graduated from Harvard College.
Sunday 7th February 2021
Earlier this week, a vulnerability was published to the Cassandra users mailing list which describes a flaw in the way Apache Cassandra nodes perform encryption in some configurations. The vulnerability description is reproduced here: “Description: When using ‘dc’ or ‘rack’ internode_encryption setting, a Cassandra instance allows both encrypted and unencrypted connections. A misconfigured node or […]
Read moreFriday 29th January 2021
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Alexander Jurkovic– HR and Recruitment Support Officer, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? My role at Instaclustr primarily involves the end-to-end recruitment and onboarding process of new employees into the company, along with supporting the rest of the Human […]
Read moreMonday 4th January 2021
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Paris Larkins – Graduate Software Engineer, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? My role at Instaclustr entails managing, maintaining, enhancing, and implementing Instaclustr’s development security practices. This ranges from tracking and prioritizing discovered vulnerabilities, responding to security incidents, helping […]
Read moreMonday 23rd November 2020
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Tessa Jensen – Technical Operations Manager, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I am one of the managers in our growing Technical Operations team. My responsibilities include the day to day management of our TechOps engineers, which includes, but […]
Read moreTuesday 27th October 2020
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Evan Van Der Ploeg – Lead Software Engineer, Cassandra Team, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I’m a Lead Software Engineer in the Cassandra team, where I support an agile development team in delivering impactful changes in the Cassandra […]
Read moreTuesday 29th September 2020
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Paul Aubrey, VP—Product Management, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? The Product Management team that I lead is responsible for the development and maintenance of Instaclustr’s product roadmap. I took on the role early this year when we created the […]
Read moreTuesday 28th July 2020
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Mussa Shirazi, Senior Consultant, Instaclustr What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I work as Senior consultant at Instaclustr, as part of the Consulting team. I’m involved in customer consultancy projects for technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra. I work very […]
Read moreWednesday 11th March 2020
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members work life. This time it is Alwyn Davis, Technical Director. Alwyn is based out of the Canberra office. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I’m a Technical Director and my job mostly focuses on managing many of our technical projects. I provide architectural direction and steer […]
Read moreMonday 6th January 2020
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 […]
Read moreTuesday 11th October 2016
When configuring Apache Cassandra to work in a new environment or with a new application or service we sometimes find ourselves asking “What’s the difference between broadcast_address and broadcast_rpc_address again?”. The difference is broadcast_address relates to gossip and node to node communications, whereas broadcast_rpc_address is associated with client connections. Read on for more details. The Cassandra configuration file has a few interdependent properties […]
Read moreMonday 4th May 2015
Join Us – Introduction to Instaclustr Webinar Thursday, May 7, 2015 8:00 – 8:30 AM (Pacific Time)Instaclustr is dedicated to providing the simplest and easiest way to run Apache Cassandra.Our hosted Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise solutions power mission-critical, highly available applications for our customers, enabling them to transform their business and engage like never before with […]
Read moreMonday 23rd February 2015
Launch of new developer node offerings Instaclustr is pleased to announce that we have added new lower cost developer nodes to use our service aimed at developers who want to get started straight away with a lower cost Cassandra-as-a-Service. We have launched two new node types that start from as little as $20 a month. These […]
Read moreFriday 6th February 2015
The Spark project encompasses no fewer than four other components, including a stream analytics engine and a structured query interface. It provides out-of-the-box capabilities that previously required learning, setting up and maintaining a mishmash of different technologies. And once users inevitably start shifting their attention away from third-party components to Spark, vendors will follow suit. […]
Read moreTuesday 27th January 2015
View Adam Zegelin’s Presentation Slides – Cassandra in the Cloud, presented at January’s DataStax Sydney Tech Day. Apache Cassandra in the Cloud from Instaclustr
Read moreTuesday 6th January 2015
Ben Bromhead presentation from Cassandra Summit in December, London.
Read moreThursday 18th December 2014
Join us for a free tech day in Sydney on 21st January 2015. Upcoming Tech Day for Apache Cassandra – Sydney Wednesday, 21 January 2015 from 09:30 to 16:00 (AEDT) Sydney, NSW http://www.datastax.com/company/news-and-events/events/techdays Register online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-datastax-tech-day-for-apache-cassandra-sydney-tickets-14922347142
Read moreMonday 17th November 2014
Europe’s Largest Gathering of Cassandra Developers December 3 – 4, 2014 | London, UK | The Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel The Instaclustr Team will be attending the London Cassandra summit, as a Sponsor. Our Co-Founder Ben Bromhead will be one of the speakers. Learn how the world’s most successful companies are transforming their businesses using Apache […]
Read moreWednesday 5th November 2014
Instaclustr’s Adam Zegelin presented at the September 2014 Cassandra Summit, on the topic, Multi-Region Clusters — Cassandra Deployments Split Between Heterogeneous Data Centre Speaker: Adam Zegelin, CTO at Instaclustr In this presentation we discuss a method of provisioning and running an Apache Cassandra deployment spilt between multiple heterogeneous data centers which, rather than allocating per-node […]
Read moreMonday 20th October 2014
Ben Bromhead will be joining Patrick McFadin in Melbourne on the 23rd of October to talk for the first Melbourne Cassandra Users meetup. We are also joining up with the Melbourne Big Data analytics meetup group so this should be massive! Details can be found on meetup.com. We are looking forward to an awesome meetup and […]
Read moreMonday 22nd September 2014
Wow, what a week it was. Seven days later and our heads are still spinning. The Cassandra Summit officially ran over the 10th and the 11th of September, but for the Instaclustr team it started a lot earlier with us all flying into San Francisco from Canberra, Australia over the weekend. We had a healthy […]
Read moreThursday 4th September 2014
Apache Cassandra’s log-structured storage engine delivers amazing performance by ensuring that all inserts and updates are written sequentially to disk. Once data is written to disk as an sstable it is never modified. When you change a record, the new version of it is written to the next data sstable on disk. Over time read performance […]
Read moreSunday 25th August 2013
Our final blog post on looking at what’s new in Cassandra 2.0.
Read moreTuesday 6th August 2013
Following on from our last post, the next big feature in Apache Cassandra 2.0 that I will look at are the new type of lightweight transactions called compare and set operations. Compare and Set (CAS) The next big ticket item in Cassandra 2.0 are compare and set operations (CAS). These operations allow developers to perform […]
Read moreTuesday 16th July 2013
The first beta of Apache Cassandra 2.0 has been out for a while now. This new release contains a number of exiting new features that makes Cassandra more powerful and easier to work with. Over the next few weeks I’ll have a look at some of the new features to expect. If you want to […]
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