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How to build a streaming analytics pipeline with Terraform and Instaclustr'Part 2: Designing the complete data pipeline
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (912+ words) April 08, 2026 | By Walt Ribeiro In part 1, we deployed a managed Apache Kafka cluster with Terraform. That gave us a reliable message broker, but a broker sitting alone isn't a pipeline'it's just infrastructure waiting for a purpose. Today, we add the…...
How to build a streaming analytics pipeline with Terraform and Instaclustr'Part 3: Integrating with AWS VPC
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1585+ words) April 08, 2026 | By Walt Ribeiro In parts 1 and 2, we built a complete streaming pipeline: Kafka for ingestion, Kafka Connect for data movement, and Click House for analytics. Everything worked, but it ran over the public internet. That is fine for a…...
How to build a streaming analytics pipeline with Terraform and Instaclustr'Part 1: Setting up your first Kafka" cluster
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (789+ words) April 08, 2026 | By Walt Ribeiro Every year, teams spend countless hours clicking through cloud consoles, manually provisioning infrastructure, and hoping they remember the exact configuration when it's time to rebuild. Then something breaks at 2 a. m. and nobody remembers which checkbox was checked…...
Instaclustr product update: March 2026
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (446+ words) Here's a roundup of the latest features and updates that we've recently released. If you have any particular feature requests or enhancement ideas that you would like to see, please get in touch with us. Major announcements Introducing AI Cluster…...
AI Search for Open Search is now generally available on the Net App Instaclustr Managed Platform
3+ week, 2+ day ago (332+ words) March 17, 2026 | By Alex Bunday Today, Net App announces the general availability of AI Search for Open Search on the Instaclustr Managed Platform, giving you a simpler way to build intelligent, context'aware search experiences on fully managed, open source infrastructure. Traditional…...
Migrating Ansible AWX: From Docker to a Kubernetes framework
4+ week, 1+ day ago (779+ words) March 11, 2026 | By Isuru Perera Net App recently started using Kubernetes with our fleet automation tooling on the Net App Instaclustr Platform. It took us a few attempts to get the right setup for our purposes. This blog is about how…...
Apache Cassandra" 5. 0: Improving performance with Unified Compaction Strategy
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (741+ words) February 18, 2026 | By Mariah Mc Laughlin In the past, operators had to choose between rigid strategies and accept significant trade-offs. UCS changes this paradigm, allowing the system to efficiently adapt to changing workloads with tuneable configurations that can be altered mid-flight…...
Under the hood: Engineering faster Click House" performance
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1236+ words) February 11, 2026 | By Guang Zhao Speed matters in data analytics. When you are processing billions of rows, even small performance improvements compound into massive time and cost savings. For Click House 25. 10, I contributed three patches that push the boundaries of query…...
IBM, Confluent Acquisition: What it means for your data strategy
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (807+ words) January 26, 2026 | By Michael Reynolds Big news in the tech world often brings big questions. With the pending IBM Confluent acquisition shaking up the data streaming landscape, many engineering leaders and architects are pausing to re-evaluate their strategies. Mergers of this…...
Building the AI Cluster Health Summary: From raw metrics to clear signals
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (699+ words) January 21, 2026 | By Chris Carter The new AI Cluster Health Summary on the Instaclustr Console is designed to give you a concise, transparent reading of recent cluster state'the what and the why'so you can understand the health of any Net App…...