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Apache Flink® vs Apache Kafka® Streams: Comparing Features & Capabilities
This blog post will help clarify how these technologies work, their pros and cons, and what use cases are the most appropriate for each.
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February 06, 2024 -
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Instaclustr Product Update: December 2023
There have been a lot of exciting things happening at Instaclustr! Here’s a roundup of the updates to our platform over the last few months. As always, if you have a specific feature request or improvement you’d love to see, please get in contact with us. Major Announcements Cadence®: Instaclustr Managed Platform adds HTTP API...
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December 07, 2023 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Debezium® Change Data Capture for Apache Cassandra®
The Debezium® Change Data Capture (CDC) source connector for Apache Cassandra® version 4.0.11 is now generally available on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. The Debezium CDC source connector will stream your Cassandra data (via Apache Kafka®) to a centralized enterprise data warehouse or any other downstream data consumer. Now business information in your Cassandra database is streamed...
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December 04, 2023 -
- Feature Releases
The Instaclustr Managed Platform Adds HTTP API for Cadence®
The Instaclustr Managed Platform now provides an HTTP API to allow interaction with Cadence® workflows from virtually any language. Originally developed and open sourced by Uber, Cadence is a workflow engine that greatly simplifies microservices orchestration for executing complex business processes at scale. Until now, fully supported client libraries were only available for Java and...
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December 01, 2023 -
- Technical
Security Advisory: CVE-2023-44981 Apache ZooKeeper™
Issue Details: On October 11, 2023, the Apache ZooKeeper™ project announced that a security vulnerability has been identified in Apache ZooKeeper, CVE-2023-44981. The Apache ZooKeeper project has classified the severity of this CVE as critical. The CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 3.x severity rating for this vulnerability by the NVD (National Vulnerability Database) is base...
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October 24, 2023 -
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Security Advisory: CVE-2023-43642 Snappy-Java
Issue Details Following the publication of CVE-2023-43642, Instaclustr began investigating its potential impact on our Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra® offering. This vulnerability affects snappy-java, which is a runtime dependency of Apache Cassandra versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.11, 4.0, and 4.1. When decompressing data with a chunk size that is too large, the SnappyInputStream component function of...
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September 30, 2023 -
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How to Keep a Redis™ Cluster Stable While Performing Routine Maintenance
Running a fleet of Redis™ clusters for Instaclustr at scale comes with many challenges; keeping clusters up to date being just one example. We do not want to log on to each node in a cluster and update it manually. Automated processes do things like apply security patches and update versions, but making sure...
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September 25, 2023 -
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Instaclustr Product Update: September 2023
Here’s a summary of the announcements from our Product team you should be aware of. For those who persevere, at the end we also call out what we’ll be releasing shortly.
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September 05, 2023