Instaclustr's Open Source Tools For Cassandra-LDAP/Kerberos, Prometheus Exporter

Ensuring reliable data storage and delivery with Apache Kafka can prove to be a concern. Those trying to implement Apache Kafka are forced to deal with critical questions such as: how data order can be at risk? How data could potentially be lost? How records could be accidentally duplicated?


Join this webinar as we explore the essential components of building an effective strategy for data integrity with Apache Kafka. This webinar will also dive into how to resolve the above issues using a combination of:
- Effective Topic and Partitioning strategies
- Effective Data Keying Strategies
- Exactly once Semantics with Producers and Consumers

Join our Technical Evangelist, Paul Brebner, in a journey of exploration upriver with "Kongo", a scalable streaming IoT logistics demonstration application using Apache Kafka, the popular open-source distributed streaming platform. Along the way you'll discover: an example logistics IoT problem domain (involving the rapid movement of thousands of goods by trucks between warehouses, with real-time checking of complex business and safety rules from sensor data); an overview of the Apache Kafka architecture and components; lessons learned from making critical Kaka application design decisions; an example of Kafka Streams for checking truck load limits; and finish the journey by overcoming final performance challenges and shooting the rapids to scale Kongo on a production Kafka cluster.

This webinar will overview the key trends that Instaclustr is seeing in the adoption of open source solutions for large scale, high-reliability applications. What are the predominant use cases and technologies and what approaches are driving the most successful adoption? Looking forward, we will survey the trends shaping the development and proliferation of open source technology and how enterprises can shape their technology strategy to take advantage of these developments.

This webinar will overview the key trends that Instaclustr is seeing in the adoption of open source solutions for large scale, high-reliability applications. What are the predominant use cases and technologies and what approaches are driving the most successful adoption? Looking forward, we will survey the trends shaping the development and proliferation of open source technology and how enterprises can shape their technology strategy to take advantage of these developments.

Instaclustr is back with part 2 of Apache Kafka 101 webinar series for an audience coming from traditional ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), Middleware and ETL based systems who want to learn about a modern-day approach to message processing, stream processing, real-time analytics, event sourcing, or acting as an Enterprise-wide central data bus.

In part-1 of this series, we looked at the basics of Apache Kafka, Kafka ecosystem, an overview of its architecture and explored concepts like brokers, topics, partitions, logs, producers, consumers, consumer groups, etc.

Instaclustr is now organising part 2 of this webinar series. In this part, we will talk about topic design and partitioning. We will at good practices to keep in mind when designing for the required throughput of your applications. We will also look at the message key role with regards to guaranteeing message order. This will move you forward another step in your journey of learning and making the best use of Apache Kafka.

This session walks devs through Instaclustr's Cassandra tools and how they add key functionality and ease-of-use to their deployments.

-An LDAP authenticator plug-in for Cassandra: The open-source LDAP authenticator plug-in works closely with the existing Cassandra Authorizer implementation. The plug-in enables developers to quickly reap the benefits of secure LDAP authentication without the need to write their own solutions, and to transition to using the authenticator with zero downtime.

-A Kerberos authenticator plug-in for Cassandra: The open-source Kerberos authenticator plug-in enables Cassandra users to leverage Kerberos’ industry-leading secure authentication and true single sign-on capabilities. The open-source project also includes a Kerberos authenticator plugin for the Cassandra Java driver.

-Cassandra Prometheus Exporter: The Cassandra-exporter is a high-performance metrics collection agent that allows for easy integration with the Prometheus monitoring solution. It has been designed to collect detailed metrics on production-sized clusters with complex schemata with minimal performance impact while at the same time following Prometheus's best practices for exporting metrics.

- Additional utilities and debugging tools including a utility to assist with backup and restore to various cloud providers, and tools to provide debug-level information about SSTables.

- A Cassandra operator for running and operating Cassandra within Kubernetes: The open-source Cassandra operator functions as a Cassandra-as-a-Service on Kubernetes, fully handling deployment and operations duties so that developers don’t have to. It also offers a consistent environment and set of operations founded on best practices, which is reproducible across production clusters and development, staging, and QA environments.

The audience for this presentation will learn the specifics of how to implement – and get the most out of – these open source solutions.

Are you responsible for building Data pipelines for your organization or for your customers? Are you coming from a background where you worked on traditional ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), Middleware and ETL based systems but are no longer comfortable with modern trends in these domains? Or are you just interested in learning a technology that provides framework for message processing, stream processing, real time analytics, event sourcing, or acting as a central data bus for your organization.

Apache Kafka is the leading distributed streaming and queuing technology for large-scale, always-on applications. Kafka has built-in features of horizontal scalability, high-throughput and low-latency. It is highly reliable, has high-availability, and allows geographically distributed data streams and stream processing applications. It’s used by pretty much all the big tech giants; LinkedIn, Netflix, Uber, Twitter, AirBnB and traditional names like Adidas, Goldman Sachs; the list goes on.

Instaclustr is organizing a multi-part webinar series on Apache Kafka with an aim to help you in your journey of learning and making the best use of this technology.

In part-1 of this series, we will start with the basics of Apache Kafka, Kafka ecosystem, overview of its architecture and explore concepts like brokers, topics, partitions, logs, producers, consumers, consumer groups, etc.

At Instaclustr, we use one of our own Cassandra clusters and a custom monitoring application to store, process, and retrieve metrics on every single node in our fleet. The talk will introduce how we collect, process, store, and rollup all the metrics which pass through our monitoring system every second. We will discuss why using Cassandra, time buckets, and Spark is really suited to efficiently and quickly store, and query all that monitoring data.

Are you responsible for building Data pipelines for your organization or for your customers? Are you coming from a background where you worked on traditional ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), Middleware and ETL based systems but are no longer comfortable with modern trends in these domains? Or are you just interested in learning a technology that provides framework for message processing, stream processing, real time analytics, event sourcing, or acting as a central data bus for your organization.

Apache Kafka is the leading distributed streaming and queuing technology for large-scale, always-on applications. Kafka has built-in features of horizontal scalability, high-throughput and low-latency. It is highly reliable, has high-availability, and allows geographically distributed data streams and stream processing applications. It’s used by pretty much all the big tech giants; LinkedIn, Netflix, Uber, Twitter, AirBnB and traditional names like Adidas, Goldman Sachs; the list goes on.

Instaclustr is organizing a multi-part webinar series on Apache Kafka with an aim to help you in your journey of learning and making the best use of this technology.

In part-1 of this series, we will start with the basics of Apache Kafka, Kafka ecosystem, overview of its architecture and explore concepts like brokers, topics, partitions, logs, producers, consumers, consumer groups, etc.

Instaclustr is back with part 2 of Apache Kafka 101 webinar series for an audience coming from traditional ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), Middleware and ETL based systems who want to learn about a modern-day approach to message processing, stream processing, real-time analytics, event sourcing, or acting as an Enterprise-wide central data bus.

In part-1 of this series, we looked at the basics of Apache Kafka, Kafka ecosystem, an overview of its architecture and explored concepts like brokers, topics, partitions, logs, producers, consumers, consumer groups, etc.

Instaclustr is now organising part 2 of this webinar series. In this part, we will talk about topic design and partitioning. We will at good practices to keep in mind when designing for the required throughput of your applications. We will also look at the message key role with regards to guaranteeing message order. This will move you forward another step in your journey of learning and making the best use of Apache Kafka.

Instaclustr is back with part 2 of Apache Cassandra 101 webinar series with an aim to help Software Engineers, Database developers, DBA, DevOps, Enterprise or Solution Architects, take the next step in their journey of learning and making the best use of Apache Cassandra.

In part-1 of this series, we looked at Cassandra basics, compared it with RDBMS for good and bad, and then moved on to explore concepts like replication, partitioning, token ranges, consistency.

In part 2, we will explore in detail how Cassandra stores data i.e. write path and how data is retrieved i.e. read path. In this process, you will learn about some key concepts like memtable, SSTables, Co-ordinator, Compaction, Bloom filter, Row and key caches etc.

If you are a Software Engineer, Database developer, DBA, DevOps, Enterprise or Solution Architect who has heard of Big Data and NoSQL but doesn't know exactly what the fuss is all about and want to learn more then this webinar is for you.

Apache Cassandra is a highly available, linearly scalable, fault-tolerant database that can offer extremely high throughput and very low latency. It's one of the most popular and most successful NoSQL databases. It has been widely adopted by biggest tech names, major world-renowned brands and research institutes alike. This list includes companies like Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Rackspace, Reddit and also research institutes like CERN.

Instaclustr is organizing a multi-part webinar series on Apache Cassandra with an aim to help you in your journey of learning and making the best use of Apache Cassandra.

In part-1 of this series, we will start with demystifying NoSQL, look at Cassandra basics, compare it with RDBMS for good and bad, and then move on to explore concepts like replication, partitioning, token ranges, consistency etc.

Are you responsible for building Data pipelines for your organization or for your customers? Are you coming from a background where you worked on traditional ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), Middleware and ETL based systems but are no longer comfortable with modern trends in these domains? Or are you just interested in learning a technology that provides framework for message processing, stream processing, real time analytics, event sourcing, or acting as a central data bus for your organization.

Apache Kafka is the leading distributed streaming and queuing technology for large-scale, always-on applications. Kafka has built-in features of horizontal scalability, high-throughput and low-latency. It is highly reliable, has high-availability, and allows geographically distributed data streams and stream processing applications. It’s used by pretty much all the big tech giants; LinkedIn, Netflix, Uber, Twitter, AirBnB and traditional names like Adidas, Goldman Sachs; the list goes on.

Instaclustr is organising a multi-part webinar series on Apache Kafka with an aim to help you in your journey of learning and making the best use of this technology.

In part-1 of this series, we will start with the basics of Apache Kafka, Kafka ecosystem, overview of its architecture and explore concepts like brokers, topics, partitions, logs, producers, consumers, consumer groups, etc.

If you are a Software Engineer, Database developer, DBA, DevOps, Enterprise or Solution Architect who has heard of Big Data and NoSQL but doesn't know exactly what the fuss is all about and want to learn more then this webinar is for you.

Apache Cassandra is a highly available, linearly scalable, fault-tolerant database that can offer extremely high throughput and very low latency. It's one of the most popular and most successful NoSQL databases. It has been widely adopted by biggest tech names, major world-renowned brands and research institutes alike. This list includes companies like Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Rackspace, Reddit and also research institutes like CERN.

Instaclustr is organising a multi-part webinar series on Apache Cassandra with an aim to help you in your journey of learning and making the best use of Apache Cassandra.

In part-1 of this series, we will start with demystifying NoSQL, look at Cassandra basics, compare it with RDBMS for good and bad, and then move on to explore concepts like replication, partitioning, token ranges, consistency etc.

Ensuring reliable data storage and delivery with Apache Kafka can prove to be a concern. Those trying to implement Apache Kafka are forced to deal with critical questions such as: how data order can be at risk? How data could potentially be lost? How records could be accidentally duplicated?


Join this webinar as we explore the essential components of building an effective strategy for data integrity with Apache Kafka. This webinar will also dive into how to resolve the above issues using a combination of:
- Effective Topic and Partitioning strategies
- Effective Data Keying Strategies
- Exactly once Semantics with Producers and Consumers

Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra and Kubernetes are open source big data technologies enabling applications and business operations to scale massively and rapidly. While Kafka and Cassandra underpins the data layer of the stack providing capability to stream, disseminate, store and retrieve data at very low latency, Kubernetes is a container orchestration technology that helps in automated application deployment and scaling of application clusters. In this webinar, we will discuss how we architected a massive scale deployment of a streaming data pipeline with Kafka and Cassandra to cater to an example Anomaly detection application running on a Kubernetes cluster and generating and processing massive amount of events. Anomaly detection is a method used to detect unusual events in an event stream. It is widely used in a range of applications such as financial fraud detection, security, threat detection, website user analytics, sensors, IoT, system health monitoring, etc. When such applications operate at massive scale generating millions or billions of events, they impose significant computational, performance and scalability challenges to anomaly detection algorithms and data layer technologies. We will demonstrate the scalability, performance and cost effectiveness of Kafka and Cassandra, with results from our experiments allowing the Anomaly detection application to scale to 19 Billion anomaly checks per day.

Gain confidence to build on open source Apache Cassandra

Introducing the Instaclustr Open Source Certification Framework and Certified Apache Cassandra. Learn about Instaclustr's new Open Source Certification Framework and first certified product, Apache Cassandra. The certification framework aims to build on Instaclustr’s extensive open source experience to provide additional assurance to companies that the open source software they are building on is robust and well supported. This webinar will explain the details of the framework and the certification process for Apache Cassandra.

Bio: Ben Slater, Chief Product Officer at Instaclustr. As Chief Product Officer, Ben is charged with steering Instaclustr’s development roadmap and overseeing the product engineering, production support, open source and consulting teams. Ben has over 20 years experience in systems development including previously as lead architect for the product that is now Oracle Policy Automation and over 10 years as a solution architect and project manager for Accenture. He has extensive experience in managing development teams and implementing quality controlled engineering practices.

In this webinar Jim Curtis (Senior Analyst, 451 Research) and Ben Bromhead (CTO, Instaclustr) will look at the broad trends we are currently seeing in the open source database world, both on-premise and in the cloud. Jim will share how companies are adopting different open source projects and how they are engaging vendors with different service and license models. Ben will then explore how Instaclustr fits into this ecosystem and how you can leverage Instaclustr to deploy open source database capabilities.

At the end of this webinar, you will leave with guidance on how to be successful in picking the right tool or service for the job as well as a solid understanding of where Instaclustr's offerings around Cassandra, Kafka, Spark and Elasticsearch fit in the ecosystem.

In this session, Christophe Schmitz, SVP Consulting at Instaclustr will be focusing on the key mechanism that makes Cassandra so reliable and the different level of availability you might want to reach. Christophe will also be disusing how to achieve is and the pros and cons of each solution.

The Presentation will cover

•The different level of availability you might want to reach
•How to achieve it and the pros and cons of each solution.

At the end of this talk, you will have a better understanding of the Cassandra build in multi-data center feature and be able to make the right Cassandra architecture decision to balance cost vs availability.