Operations Archives

Infrastructure as Code, Part Two: A Closer Look at Terraform

2018-10-30

In part two of this IaC miniseries, I will tell you more about Terraform and provide examples from our own setup at Crate.io.

General Operations

Run Your First CrateDB Cluster on Kubernetes, Part Two

2018-08-22

Part two of a miniseries that walks you through the process of setting up your first CrateDB cluster on Kubernetes.

General Operations

Run Your First CrateDB Cluster on Kubernetes, Part One

2018-08-17

Part one of a miniseries that walks you through the process of setting up your first CrateDB cluster on Kubernetes.

General Lab Notes Operations

Lab Notes: How We Made Joins 23 Thousand Times Faster, Part Two

2018-07-03

Part two of a three-part miniseries that looks at how we improved join performance in the CrateDB 3.0 release.

General Lab Notes Operations

Lab Notes: How We Made Joins 23 Thousand Times Faster, Part One

2018-06-26

Since many CrateDB users want to run joins on large tables for their analytics, we decided to introduce a new join algorithm that would have better join performance than the nested loop algorithm. In this post, I will show you how we approached the problem.

Client Tools General Operations

Use CrateDB With SQLPad, a Self-Hosted Query Tool and Visualizer

2018-05-04

In this post I will show you how to get set up with CrateDB and SQLPad on macOS, but these instructions should be trivially adaptable for Linux or Windows.

Company General Operations

CrateDB 2.3.5 (Stable) Available Now

2018-03-23

Hey folks! CrateDB version 2.3.5 was released recently and is now available in the stable release channels. This is a fix release that includes the following changes.

General Operations

What to Look at When You’re Monitoring a Distributed Java Application

2018-02-19

In this post we will show you what to look at when you're monitoring a distributed java application.

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Company Operations Product

Feature Focus: Making Things Hyper Fast Fast

2018-01-31

The CrateDB 2.3.x release line is stable now, so head on over to the downloads page to get started. In this post, I will take a closer look at some of the other new features in 2.3.

Analyzing Docker Container Performance: JSON stream

General Operations

Analyzing Docker Container Performance With Native Tools

2017-10-16

In this blog post, we will set up a small CrateDB cluster with Docker and go through some useful Docker commands that let us take a look at performance.