Technical Technical — Cassandra
Why We Built an Open Source Cassandra-Operator to Run Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes
Thursday 13th September 2018 by Ben Bromhead
As Kubernetes becomes the de facto for container orchestration, more and more developers (and enterprises) want to run Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes. It’s easy to get started with this – especially considering the...Technical Technical — Cassandra
AWS Lambda with Managed Cassandra - Part 1: Let's Build a POC
Monday 27th August 2018 by Christophe Schmitz
Serverless architecture is an attractive solution for both small businesses and large enterprises. The former gains the ability to go to market quickly while the latter are able to reduce IT costs by...Technical Technical — Cassandra
Update released for Instaclustr sstable analysis tools for Apache Cassandra
Tuesday 21st August 2018 by Instaclustr
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the latest update for it’s open-sourced sstable analysis tools for Apache Cassandra. These tools, first released in February 2017, help operators to gain an accurate picture of the...Technical Technical — Cassandra
Apache Cassandra LDAP Authentication
Friday 29th June 2018 by Kurt Greaves
We’ve seen an increasing need for LDAP integration into Apache Cassandra, and continually hearing of cases where people have written their own LDAP authenticators for Cassandra. However, if you search around you’ll have...Technical Technical — Cassandra
Using Cassandra Stress to model a time series workload
Wednesday 9th May 2018 by Instaclustr
Motivation When examining whether Cassandra is a good fit for your needs, it is good practice to stress test Cassandra using a workload that looks similar to the expected workload in Production. In...Technical Technical — Cassandra
Apache Kafka Connect Architecture Overview
Wednesday 9th May 2018 by Paul Brebner
Kafka Connect is an API and ecosystem of 3rd party connectors that enables Apache Kafka to be scalable, reliable, and easily integrated with other heterogeneous systems (such as Cassandra, Spark, and Elassandra) without...News Technical — Cassandra
February 2018 Apache Cassandra Releases
Thursday 22nd March 2018 by Kurt Greaves
In February, the Apache Cassandra project issued releases for all currently supported branches of Apache Cassandra. As far as releases go the change list was modest, which shows that we’re seeing fewer bugs...Technical Technical — Cassandra
Benchmark Results: Linux Kernel "Meltdown" patch effects on Apache Cassandra 3.11.1
Friday 2nd February 2018 by Instaclustr
In our Security Advisory published 8 January, we advised of up to 20% increase in CPU utilization and small increase in latency across managed clusters in AWS and GCP following the rollout of...Technical Technical — Cassandra
Surveying the Cassandra-compatible database landscape
Wednesday 17th January 2018 by Ben Slater
Overview The popularity of Apache Cassandra and the applicability of it’s development model has seen it clearly emerge as the leading NoSQL technology for scale, performance and availability. One only needs to survey...News Technical — Cassandra
How AdStage moved beyond startup scale with Apache Cassandra as a data service
Wednesday 13th December 2017 by Instaclustr
Startup growth is never a bad thing – but the strain it puts on an IT team is real. Jason Wu of AdStage told me how AdStage addressed its data scale issues, and...Technical Technical — Cassandra Technical — Kafka Technical — Spark Technical — Elasticsearch
Pick‘n’Mix: Cassandra, Spark, Zeppelin, Elassandra, Kibana, & Kafka
Tuesday 5th December 2017 by Paul Brebner
Kafkaesque: \ käf-kə-ˈesk \ Marked by a senseless, disorienting, menacing, nightmarishly complexity. One morning when I woke from troubled dreams, I decided to blog about something potentially Kafkaesque: Which Instaclustr managed open-source-as-a-service(s) can be used...News Technical — Cassandra
Instaclustr: 7 Easy Steps to Cassandra Cluster Migration
Friday 1st December 2017 by Ben Slater
Instaclustr offers managed and supported solutions for a wide range of open source technologies including Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch, Apache Spark, Apache Zeppelin, Kibana and Apache Lucene. CPO Ben Slater provides their 7-step guide...Site by Swell Design Group