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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 and continuous data processing at scale.

It’s always nice to know the theory behind the practice, but sadly that’s not enough. A Risk Management plan is what will make you truly effective at avoiding risks and keeping your organization safe. Having a set of guidelines will help you map your activities, ensure the right people are held accountable, and avoid possible disruptions or fines. Don’t know where to start? Don’t worry!

Healthchecks recently gained a new feature: check auto-provisioning. When you send a ping request to a slug URL, and a check with the specified slug does not exist, Healthchecks can now automatically create the missing check. This feature requires opt-in: to use it, add a?create=1 query parameter to the ping URL.

Generally, data monitoring can be referred to as a continuous process of observing and tracking data in order to ensure its integrity, quality, and conformance with specific standards or requirements. Data monitoring often involves systematic data collection, analysis, and reporting to identify patterns, trends, anomalies, and potential issues.

Every organization has a process for building and releasing software. Smaller organizations may run a few automated tests before releasing, while larger organizations may have 100s of scans, validations, and approvals spanning everything from technical to legal. Whatever the process is, the end goal is the same: software that’s mature enough for release. The challenge is that this process is complicated, messy, and often created in an ad hoc way, changing as organizations evolve.

Managing school stocks is essential for all educational institutions. In summer, when schools are closed, it is important to take advantage of this period to optimize inventory management. Here are six practical tips to improve management.

As a leading full-stack observability platform, Coralogix enables you to gather, monitor and analyze your infrastructure and application telemetry. And Coralogix now offers synthetic monitoring for proactive end-to-end testing across development with Checkly.

Maybe you came across the term “vector database” and are wondering whether it’s the new kid on the block of data retrieval systems. Maybe you are confused by conflicting claims about vector databases. The truth is, the approach used by vector databases has been around for a few years.