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.
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- Cadence
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Cadence® Performance Benchmarking Using Apache Cassandra® Paxos V2
Overview Originally developed and open sourced by Uber, Cadence® is a workflow engine that greatly simplifies microservices orchestration for executing complex business processes at scale. Instaclustr has offered Cadence on the Instaclustr Managed Platform for more than 12 months now. Having made open source contributions to Cadence to allow it to work with Apache Cassandra®…
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- Dev Rel
- Apache Kafka
Tracing Apache Kafka® With OpenTelemetry – “Leave Lots of Traces”
A radio-controlled saltwater crocodile? No, a croc with telemetry – sensors + radio communication! (Source: Wikimedia) 1. Introduction It’s been 5 years since I looked at observability and distributed tracing for Apache Kafka® with open source OpenTracing and Jaeger in this blog. So, I decided it was worth taking another look at tracing Apache Kafka, particularly…
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- Apache Cassandra
Preview Release of Apache Cassandra® version 5.0 on the Instaclustr Managed Platform
Apache Cassandra® version 5.0 Beta 1.0 is now available in public preview on the Instaclustr Managed Platform! This follows on the heels of the project release of Cassandra version 5.0 Beta 1.0. Instaclustr is proud to be the first managed service platform to release this version for deployment on all major cloud providers or on-premises. …