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Getting to know Apache Cassandra!
Ben Slater is Instaclustr’s newly appointed Chief Product Officer and he has been charged with steering our development roadmap and overseeing the engineering of our products and managing our production support team. Ben has over 20 years of experience in systems development including previous stints with a software product company and, for the last 10...
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February 20, 2015 -
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Media: Apache Spark™ – Hadoop friend or foe?
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....
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February 06, 2015 -
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Apache Cassandra in the Cloud
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
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January 27, 2015 -
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Cassandra Summit Europe 2014
Ben Bromhead presentation from Cassandra Summit in December, London.
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January 06, 2015 -
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Presentation by Adam Zegelin at Cassandra Summit 2014 – San Francisco
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...
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November 05, 2014 -
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Cassandra Summit 2014 – Summary
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...
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September 22, 2014 -
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Fixing a compaction mistake
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...
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September 04, 2014 -
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What’s new in Cassandra 2.0 (Part 3)
Our final blog post on looking at what’s new in Cassandra 2.0.
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August 25, 2013