This blog shows you how and provides a fully working Ansible project on Github to install Kafka and manage its security.

As with Kafka, Pulsar lets you operate a standalone cluster so you can get the grasp of the basics. In my last post I did a side by side comparison of Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar. Let’s continue looking at Pulsar a little closer.

Learn how to deploy PostgreSQL for High Availability using Patroni, etcd and HAProxy. This second part of the blog shows how to configure etcd, Patroni, PoatgreSQL and HAProxy.

The most common way of keeping track of your changes to Ansible is using version control. This blog discussed approaches to version control and managing dependencies for Ansible projects.

Learn how to deploy PostgreSQL for High Availability using Patroni, etcd and HAProxy. This first blog gives an overview and how to setup the OS, Network and install etcd.

This blog describes some of the main differences between Apache Kafka and Pulsar - two of the leading data streaming Apache projects.

How Kafka can help meet regulatory standards and compliance when used as an event broker to Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.

In this topic, I will explain how to monitor docker containers running on an ECS cluster. Even though AWS CloudWatch is the preferred tool for monitoring and collecting container metrics, in some scenarios it is required to use alternative solutions.

There are many different options that control the behaviour of the backup process and how it determines what files to copy, link or delete, this blog describes how to build a simple incremental backup solution using rsync and hard links.

How to deploy Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes with AxonOps management tool. AxonOps provides the GUI management for the Cassandra cluster.

Variable scoping can be quite complicated on Ansible and it’s important to know what variable your playbook is going to be using. But sometimes it’s not as easy as it may appear and I’d like to run you through a scenario we found where the results were quite what was expected.

In this post I will create a Kafka topic and, using the command line tools to alter the retention policy and then confirm that messages are being retained as we would expect them too.

One of our customers have a short TTL for an IoT use case. The data model is a standard Cassandra time series with a sensor ID as the partition key and timestamp as the clustering column. There was a requirement by this customer to retrieve some data that was already purged due to TTL.

This blog looks at how to use Molecule to test roles in isolation, as no one is perfect and we all make mistakes but many can be avoid with careful planning.

This blog outlines some good practices that can help you secure your Apache Cassandra clusters.