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- Technical
Redis™ Mirroring Now in Preview on the Instaclustr Managed Platform
Today Instaclustr is pleased to announce that our Redis Mirroring solution is available in preview with Instaclustr for Redis on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. Mirroring enables businesses to cope with unexpected events such as cloud outages by allowing for a resilient, geographically distributed cache architecture that can handle high availability requirements. Additionally, a geographically distributed...
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March 30, 2021 -
- Technical
Complete Overview of the ELK Stack
Answering Key Questions About the ELK Stack Organizations are increasingly turning to the ELK Stack to search and analyze massive data volumes. ELK is an acronym derived from the three technologies that formed the initial stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Some are incorporating the stack’s search capabilities into apps and websites, providing simple, fast ways...
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March 29, 2021 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Jackson Fleming
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Jackson Fleming – Software Engineer, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? I’m a Software Engineer in the Admin Services team within our Engineering department. We build and maintain the tools and infrastructure that our support staff (which we refer to...
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February 23, 2021 -
- News
- Technical
Instaclustr Terraform Provider Added to Terraform Provider Registry
Instaclustr is pleased to announce that our popular Terraform provider is now published to the official Terraform providers registry. This makes the provider publicly available for browsing and searching via the registry interface, as well as available to install via the CLI. Terraform is a popular framework that enables infrastructure as code (IAC) capabilities, allowing...
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February 02, 2021 -
- Technical
What Is Elasticsearch™?
Elasticsearch is an open source scalable search and analytics engine. It takes the open source search engine Apache Lucene and enables it to scale across many machines in a cluster to handle large volumes of data at high speed. Much like the index at the back of a book, the core data structure of Lucene...
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December 21, 2020 -
- Technical
ELK Stack to EKK Stack (Elastic, Kibana, and Apache Kafka®): COVID-19 Data Analysis
A lot of people new to data science don’t know what to do after they write their first Python or R script. While that web scraper may have run well on your laptop—one time, you need to think about a streaming architecture that can handle multiple datasets. You need to not only store the results...
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October 15, 2020 -
- Technical
Understanding the Impacts of the Native Transport Requests Change Introduced in Apache Cassandra 3.11.5
Summary Recently, Cassandra made changes to the Native Transport Requests (NTR) queue behaviour. Through our performance testing, we found the new NTR change to be good for clusters that have a constant load causing the NTR queue to block. Under the new mechanism the queue no longer blocks, but throttles the load based on queue...
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October 01, 2020 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Patricia Tantow
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Patricia Tantow, Chief Marketing Officer, Instaclustr What does your role at Instaclustr entail? As the Chief Marketing Officer, I am responsible for designing marketing programs that drive customer growth, engagement, and retention. I am also in charge of the company’s global...
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August 25, 2020