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Deploying Your Free Trial Cluster: A Simple Guide
There are many getting started resources available for you so you can better understand Cassandra. We recommend you understand a bit about Cassandra before trialling our platform so you can get the full benefit of the trial.
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April 22, 2016 -
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Multi data center Apache Spark™/Cassandra Benchmark, Round 2
Context In my previous multi Data Center blog post ‘Multi data center Apache Spark and Apache Cassandra benchmark’, I compared the performance and stability of running Spark and Cassandra collocated on the same Data Center (DC), versus running a second DC that is aimed towards analytic jobs with Spark. This gives some breathing space to...
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April 21, 2016 -
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Apache Cassandra Backups Using AWS TransferManager: Failed To Reset Request Input Stream
This article is a discussion about how we overcame the ‘failed-to-reset-stream’ problem in AWS’ TransferManager while doing backups in Cassandra. Why would you want to use backups with Cassandra anyway? Cassandra is designed to be resilient to failure. Nodes can transition between up and down and it will still perform as if it were nobody’s...
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April 20, 2016 -
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Instaclustr services available now in AWS Frankfurt
Instaclustr is happy to announce that you can now immediately provision all Instaclustr services in the AWS Frankfurt data center. Instaclustr’s management system is designed to support all AWS regions. However, the AWS Frankfurt data center was not available when we did our initial set up. We have now configured and tested our system with...
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April 12, 2016 -
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Interning as a software developer with Instaclustr
My name is Danyang Li, a second-year master's degree student, majoring in Computing. In October 2015, I started to look for internship programs that would give me a platform to leverage my knowledge and skills gained in the classroom, while enabling me to work in a new and unfamiliar environment for a more holistic learning experience.
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February 12, 2016 -
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Running CoreOS official AMIs with internal storage on AWS
At Instaclustr, we host some of our customers' nodes on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Depending on customer's system requirements, we may deploy multiple different instances on AWS: EBS-backed nodes and instance-store nodes.
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February 11, 2016 -
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Connecting to a Cassandra cluster using TLS/SSL
Overview Making connections to a Cassandra cluster that uses SSL can be a little tricker than usual, however properly securing your client connections with SSL is important, especially if you are connecting to your cluster via the Internet or an untrusted network. Pre-requisites Before we get started you’ll first need to install the Java Cryptography Extensions....
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February 08, 2016 -
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Instaclustr Insights: Meet Brooke Jensen
Name Brooke Jensen @_brookejensen https://au.linkedin.com/in/brookejensen1 Role VP Technical Operations & Customer Services. I work on all our internal applications such as provisioning, monitoring and console, as well as providing on call support and consulting to our customers. Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? I started in IT right after I...
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February 02, 2016