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Blog posts tagged
"charmed spark"

Rob Gibbon
23 May 2024

Can it play Doom? Running an AI LAN party on a Spark cluster with ViZDoom

AI Article

It’s all about AI these days, so I decided to try and answer the important question: can you make a Spark cluster run AI agents that play a game of Doom, in a multiplayer LAN party? Although I’m no data scientist, I was able to get this to work and I’ll show you how so ...

Canonical
17 October 2023

Canonical announces supported solution for Apache Spark® on Kubernetes

Canonical announcements Article

17 October 2023 Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed Spark – an advanced solution for Apache Spark® that provides everything users need to run Apache Spark on Kubernetes.  Apache Spark is suitable for use in diverse data processing applications including predictive analytics, data warehousing, machine learning data preparatio ...

Rob Gibbon
3 July 2023

Charmed Spark beta release is out – try it today

AI Article

The Canonical Data Fabric team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Charmed Spark, our solution for Apache Spark. Apache Spark is a free, open source software framework for developing distributed, parallel processing jobs. It’s popular with data engineers and data scientists alike when building data pipelines for both batch an ...

Rob Gibbon
3 May 2023

Big data security foundations in five steps

Data Platform Article

We’ve all read the headlines about spectacular data breaches and other security incidents, and the impact that they have had on the victim organisations. And in some ways there’s no place more vulnerable to attack than a big data environment like a data lake. ...