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What's new in Kafka" 4. 1. 0? Introducing the new Streams Rebalance Protocol
2+ hour, 58+ min ago (668+ words) April 20, 2026 | By Paul Brebner It's been a while since I've looked at new Apache Kafka versions and features (Kafka 4. 0. 0 back in July/August 2025, just after we released 4. 0 as GA on our managed platform). There were lots of new additions in…...
Building the AI Cluster Health Summary: From raw metrics to clear signals
2+ mon, 4+ 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…...
Introducing Kafka Client Telemetry: Centralized client metrics for Instaclustr Managed Apache Kafka
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (146+ words) April 16, 2026 | By Varun Ghai Net App, a leading provider of fully managed open source data and workflow application solutions, is introducing a significant enhancement to its managed service Instaclustr for Apache Kafka. This new feature called Client Telemetry is designed…...
Understanding Open Search" vector field types'Part 1: knn_vector
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (686+ words) April 14, 2026 | By Ramya Ravi knn_vector enables developers to store machine learning embeddings and perform similarity search based on meaning rather than exact words, laying the groundwork for scalable semantic search. This is a developer-focused two-part series. Part 1 covers Open Search's knn_vector field…...
Open Search version 3. 6 release'smart agents and fast search
1+ week, 3+ day ago (925+ words) April 10, 2026 | By Kassian Wren ML Commons is the main driver for using LLMs and other ML models within Open Search clusters. The improvements made within are important for Open Search's continued development as an AI search platform. One of the…...
How to build a streaming analytics pipeline with Terraform and Instaclustr'Part 2: Designing the complete data pipeline
1+ week, 5+ day 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+ week, 5+ day 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+ week, 5+ day 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…...
Migrating Ansible AWX: From Docker to a Kubernetes framework
1+ mon, 1+ week 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
2+ mon, 1+ day 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…...