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Rob Gibbon

Rob Gibbon

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Rob has 20+ years' industry experience building, scaling, managing and serving the teams, technology and environments behind around 50+ commercial web properties and data hubs across all major industries in varied roles. Rob brings both deep commercial and technical expertise to the product leadership team at Canonical. When he's not busy making great product, Rob is out running, reading and thinking, or just being.

Rob Gibbon
18 August 2021

How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 2

Cloud and server Article

If you have followed Part 1 of this blog post, you’ll have a working setup that allows you to run MicroK8s on Ubuntu Core in a VM on your local workstation using Multipass. But you’re itching to get this up and running on the cloud. I know, so am I! So let’s step through that ...

Rob Gibbon
18 August 2021

How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 1

Cloud and server Article

There are some great reasons to use nested virtualisation on compute clouds. Nested virtualisation is when you have Virtual Machines running within Virtual Machines. This approach offers a stronger isolation model than containers: by using a dedicated kernel and IO devices, bad behaviour cannot easily break out and spread. In fact, nested ...

Rob Gibbon
28 May 2021

Let’s play: sharded big data PostgreSQL

Data Systems Article

Everyone knows that if you’ve got big data, you need Apache Hadoop, right? It’s an affordable, horizontally scalable, clustered data processing platform ideal for data warehousing use cases. And it knocks the socks off classic relational database management systems like PostgreSQL that can barely keep up when playing with a terabyte of da ...

Rob Gibbon
20 May 2021

Data Lab, Data Lake, Data Hub: what’s the difference?

AI Article

In this post we’ll explore the concepts of data lake, data hub and data lab. There are many opinions and interpretations of these concepts, and they are broadly comparable. In fact, many might say they’re synonymous and we’re just splitting hairs. Let’s look again. ...

Rob Gibbon
29 June 2020

What is Apache Kafka?

Cloud and server Article

Discover Charmed Kafka Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re routing an absolute storm of event data around a cloud environment, message queues are your best friend. Enter Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is a free, open source event streaming platform that enables you to create queues for temporary buffering of ...

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