Instaclustr Blog Archive
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Cassandra Collections: Hidden Tombstones and How to Avoid Them
Overview Multi-value data types (sets, lists and maps) are a powerful feature of Cassandra, aiding you in denormalisation while allowing you to still retrieve and set data at a very fine-grained level. However, some of Cassandra’s behaviour when handling these data types is not always as expected and can cause issues. In particular, there can...
Learn MoreInstaclustrNovember 23, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
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Upgrading Instametrics to Apache Cassandra 3
Monitoring at Scale Series In this series of blogs, explore the various ways we pushed our metrics pipeline—mainly our Apache Cassandra® cluster named Instametrics—to the limit, and how we went about reducing the load it was experiencing on a daily basis over the course of several years. Beginning in 2015 and up until now, discover...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 22, 2016 -
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Instaclustr and Baffle Partnership
Instaclustr is pleased to announce a partnership with Baffle.io to make Baffle encryption technology available to our customers as part of the Instaclustr Managed Cassandra platform. For Instaclustr, the security of our client’s data is paramount. However, while we take all the steps we can to secure clusters managed by us, the most secure solution for...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 26, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
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Instaclustr Support for OEM Apache Cassandra
Increasingly software developers are choosing Apache Cassandra as the data store for packaged software products. Typically, this is due to Cassandra’s industry leading levels of availability, reliability and scalability. However, many end customers for these software products, and even the software developers themselves, may have limited or no experience supporting Cassandra in an operational environment. Instaclustr’s Support...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 25, 2016 -
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BATCH: Workflow, Metrics & Use Cases
Overview Recently, I needed to work my way through the details of how batch transactions are processed in Cassandra and also how they affect exposed metrics. This article outlines the workflow of submitting a batch via the Java Cassandra driver and will hopefully be of use to others interested in this process. This article summarises the process...
Learn MoreAlwyn DavisOctober 25, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Feature Releases
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Patched Cassandra 3.7
In the last couple of days, we made the latest Apache Cassandra releases available in production for Instaclustr Managed Cassandra. This is something we do very regularly and normally I wouldn’t be writing a blog post about it. However, this time we’ve taken the unusual step of building our own patched version of Cassandra 3.7...
Learn MoreBen SlaterOctober 19, 2016 -
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Instaclustr Synthetic Transaction Monitoring
Overview One of the challenges we are constantly tackling at Instaclustr is how to effectively monitor clusters, and particularly read and write latency, given the wide variety of use cases that customer use our service for. Our recent introduction of synthetic transaction monitoring adds significantly to our capability to reliably monitor cluster performance regardless of...
Learn MoreBen SlaterOctober 17, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
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Demystifying Cassandra’s broadcast_address
When configuring Apache Cassandra to work in a new environment or with a new application or service we sometimes find ourselves asking “What’s the difference between broadcast_address and broadcast_rpc_address again?”. The difference is broadcast_address relates to gossip and node to node communications, whereas broadcast_rpc_address is associated with client connections. Read on for more details. The Cassandra configuration file has a few interdependent properties...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 11, 2016 -
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Instaclustr Insights: Meet Christophe Schmitz
Name Christophe Schmitz Role Senior Software engineer Location Canberra, Australia What has your role as Senior Software Engineer at Instaclustr involved? In the last six months I have mostly been involved in a Cassandra Consulting role, helping our clients to deliver scalable platforms where Cassandra plays a central role. Before that, I was designing and...
Learn MoreInstaclustrSeptember 30, 2016