Re: Resurrection of CASSANDRA-9633 - SSTable encryption

2021-11-18 Thread Ben Slater
I wanted to provide a bit of background in the interest we've seen in this ticket/feature (at Instaclustr) - essentially it comes down to in-db encryption at rest being a feature that compliance people are used to seeing in databases and having a very hard time believing that operating system

Re: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 4.0.0 released

2021-07-26 Thread Ben Slater
Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved in getting 4.0 released! It has been a very impressive community effort. --- *Ben Slater**Chief Product Officer* <https://www.facebook.com/instaclustr> <https://twitter.com/instaclustr> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/ins

Re: Project website analytics

2020-10-23 Thread Ben Slater
I'm sure I could hide a server like that in our AWS bill somewhere and also happy to help out with getting it set up if there is general agreement to go ahead. Cheers Ben --- *Ben Slater**Chief Product Officer* <https://www.instaclustr.com/platform/> <https://www.facebook.com/in

Re: Project website analytics

2020-10-22 Thread Ben Slater
Hi Mick I'm a bit unclear what you're looking for here - someone to donate a server, someone to do admin or both? Or have I missed the point altogether? Cheers Ben --- *Ben Slater**Chief Product Officer* <https://www.instaclustr.com/platform/> <https://www.facebook.com/instaclustr&

Re: Supported upgrade path for 4.0

2020-10-11 Thread Ben Slater
ng any work on 3.0 to 4.0. Cheers Ben --- *Ben Slater**Chief Product Officer* <https://www.instaclustr.com/platform/> <https://www.facebook.com/instaclustr> <https://twitter.com/instaclustr> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/instaclustr> Read our latest te

Re: [Discuss] num_tokens default in Cassandra 4.0

2020-02-18 Thread Ben Slater
tps://www.instaclustr.com/cassandra-vnodes-how-many-should-i-use/>Cheers Ben --- *Ben Slater**Chief Product Officer* <https://www.instaclustr.com/platform/> <https://www.facebook.com/instaclustr> <https://twitter.com/instaclustr> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/in

Re: Google Season of Docs 2019 for Apache Cassandra

2019-03-12 Thread Ben Slater
Hi Dinesh Great idea. We should be able to find some Instaclustr people to help with technical input (Stefan has already put his hand up). I’m also happy to help with the application if that’s useful. Cheers Ben --- *Ben Slater* *Chief Product Officer* <https://www.facebook.com/instaclu

Re: CommitLog Recovery replay stop on first timestamp after restore-point-in-time

2018-12-20 Thread Ben Slater
I don’t have any personal knowledge of the fix but out of interest I took a look in Jira and it looks sounds to me like the behaviour was fixed here (in 2.0.10): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6905 --- *Ben Slater* *Chief Product Officer* <https://www.facebook.com/instaclu

Re: Built in trigger: double-write for app migration

2018-10-18 Thread Ben Slater
> https://dzone.com/articles/cassandra-to-kafka-data-pipeline-part-1). > >> > >> And this starts to get into the complexities of hinted handoff as well. > But > >> fundamentally this seems something that would be a very nice feature > >> (espec

Re: Contributing to code

2017-06-19 Thread Ben Slater
on? > Thank you so much! > > > Salih Gedik > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > -- *Ben Slater

Re: Pluggable throttling of read and write queries

2017-02-20 Thread Ben Slater
We've never tried this approach and given my limited experience I would > find this a terrible idea from the perspective of maintenance (remember the > old saying about basket and eggs?) > > What potential benefits do you see? > > Regards, > -- > Alex > > --

Re: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 3.10 released

2017-02-03 Thread Ben Slater
sandra-3.11 > branch in git. > > Enjoy! > > [1]: (CHANGES.txt) https://goo.gl/J0VghF > [2]: (NEWS.txt) https://goo.gl/00KNVW > [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA > > > Great job all on this release. > -- Ben Slater Chief Product Officer Instaclustr: Cassandra + Spark - Managed | Consulting | Support +61 437 929 798

Re: Broader community involvement in 4.0 (WAS Re: Rough roadmap for 4.0)

2016-11-12 Thread Ben Slater
For anyone that’s interested, I’ve submitted my doc changes for point 2 below (emphasising contributions other than new features) here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12906 I haven’t added anything about the sponsor/shepherd idea as doesn’t seem to be agreed at this point.

Re: Broader community involvement in 4.0 (WAS Re: Rough roadmap for 4.0)

2016-11-07 Thread Ben Slater
further”. Might also be something to consider as part of a process like this? Cheers Ben On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 at 09:37 Dave Lester <dles...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > A few ideas to add to your suggestions [inline]: > > On 2016-11-06 13:51 (-0800), Ben Slater <be

Re: Broader community involvement in 4.0 (WAS Re: Rough roadmap for 4.0)

2016-11-06 Thread Ben Slater
Hi All, I thought I would add a couple of observations and suggestions as someone who has both personally made my first contributions to the project in the last few months and someone in a leadership role in an organisation (Instaclustr) that is feeling it’s way through increasing our

Re: [jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-12490) Add sequence distribution type to cassandra stress

2016-10-13 Thread Ben Slater
- I noticed you moved the discussion from JIRA to the dev list. What’s the etiquette there?) Cheers Ben On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 at 09:02 Jake Luciani <jak...@gmail.com> wrote: > No I'm not using a seq anywhere else then the command line > > On Oct 13, 2016 4:40 PM, "B