Instaclustr Blog Archive
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Instaclustr APIs
Instaclustr has two REST APIs that are available for our customers: A monitoring API that provides programmatic access to the same Cassandra monitoring information that is available through our management console; A provisioning API that enables provision and destruction of clusters and associated objects (e.g. firewall rules, VPC connections) Both APIs use an API key...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 19, 2016 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Encrypted EBS Support
Instaclustr has recently released support for provisioning Amazon Web Services based Cassandra clusters with encrypted EBS and encrypted backups. This support brings two big benefits to our customers: By utilising encrypted EBS (plus encrypted backups), customers may be able to meet compliance requirements that mandate encryption of data at rest. Customers always retain control of...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 08, 2016 -
- Popular
Instaclustr Increases Open Source Commitment
At Instaclustr we’re strong believers that open source is the future of software. The key technologies we support (Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark) are open source and our management systems are built on open source technology. As such, we believe that it’s vital that companies such as ourselves that rely on open source contribute fairly...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 06, 2016 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr Cluster Health
We’re happy to announce that our first release of the Instaclustr Health Page is now live on the Instaclustr console. Instaclustr’s Managed Service has long in included regular manual health checks of cluster to advise customer of issues with their use of Cassandra that have the potential to impact future stability. We’ve long wanted to...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 02, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Deep Diving cassandra-stress – Part 3 (Using YAML Profiles)
In the previous two posts of this series (Part 1 and Part 2) I covered some of the basic commands of cassandra-stress. In this post I will start looking at the use of the stress YAML file for more advanced stress scenarios, particularly where you want to run stress against a schema that matches one...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 24, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Deep Diving into cassandra-stress – Part 2 (Mixed Command)
This is the second of a series of articles explain the operations of cassandra-stress. See here for Part 1. This series of blogs has been created as part of my prep for my Cassandra summit talk ‘Load Testing Cassandra Applications’. In this post we’ll examine the operation of the mixed command in Cassandra stress and...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 23, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Deep Diving into cassandra-stress (Part 1)
Overview: Cassandra Stress This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m planning to create as part of my prep for my Cassandra summit talk ‘Load Testing Cassandra Applications’. Cassandra-stress is a great utility for stress testing Cassandra. However, available documentation is a little sparse and it is not always entirely clear what...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 19, 2016 -
- Technical
Instaclustr Offerings
Overview Over the last 2 years our range of services and capabilities have grown and we’ve also refined the definition of those services to better meet the demand that we have seen from our customers. Given that change, we thought it would be useful to set out a summary of our offerings, their benefits and what situations...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 16, 2016 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Cassandra User Defined Functions and Aggregates
Overview User Defined Functions (UDF) and Aggregates (UDA) have seen a number of improvements in Cassandra version 3.x. In particular the sand boxing of UDF code makes this functionality safer in a production environment and has led us to include Java UDF support in our Cassandra 3.x managed service offering. UDF/UDAs allow the execution of...
Learn MoreRobert MarshallAugust 03, 2016