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title: Blog posts tagged "data fabric"
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# Blog posts tagged "data fabric"

#### [Why we built a Spark solution for Kubernetes](https://canonical.com/blog/why-we-built-a-spark-solution-for-kubernetes)

We’re super excited to announce that we have shipped the first release of our solution for big data – Charmed Spark. Charmed Spark packages a supported distribution of Apache Spark and optimises it for deployment to Kubernetes, which is where most of the industry is moving these days. Reimagining how to work with big data

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Data Platform

#### [Charmed Spark beta release is out – try it today](https://canonical.com/blog/charmed-spark-beta-release)

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

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AI

#### [Big data security foundations in five steps](https://canonical.com/blog/big-data-security-foundations-in-five-steps)

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.

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Data Platform

#### [What is Apache Kafka?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-apache-kafka)

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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Cloud and server