Job update: Technology Evangelist with Instaclustr!

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The 4 evangelist's spires of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona - an amazing architectural structure.

The Evangelists' spires will be surmounted by sculptures of their traditional symbols: a winged bull (Saint Luke), a winged man (Saint Matthew), an eagle (Saint John), and a winged lion (Saint Mark). 

This week I started a new job as "Technology Evangelist" with instaclustr.com
I wonder which evangelist I am going to be :-)  Probably not the Biblical ones.

Instaclustr is a cool company that is growing rapidly and based in Canberra (at UC) but with a significant US presence. They provide Open Source as a Service on multiple cloud platforms, at reliability and scale. They reached a significant milestone of 1PB of data under management a few weeks before I joined - pretty impressive! They started out with Cassandra, and now how multiple offerings and more in the pipeline.

Lots of clever people and customers doing different interesting things.  I'm going to start out developing and blogging about some applications that will use Cassandra and other services, possibly DA/ML related as well. The challenges? Learning to use a Mac (last time was in 1985!) and getting up to speed (at speed) with their technology stack and avoiding brain explosions!

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Instaclustr have in-house systems for provisioning Cassandra on different cloud platforms, backing up Cassandra, and monitoring and management of Cassandra. These systems also work for the other Open Source offerings - check them out  :-)

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Reliability at scale.

Managed solutions for Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch, 
Apache Spark, Apache Zeppelin, Kibana and Apache Lucene

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