Data Platform archives
46 posts
Migrating from Cloudera to a modern data hub architecture
By robgibbon, 22 February 2024
In the early 2010s, Apache Hadoop captured the imagination of the tech community. A free and powerful open source platform, it gave users a way to process...
MongoDB® use cases for financial services
By Michelle Anne Tabirao, 12 February 2024
MongoDB is the ideal fit, and it’s one of the most widely used databases in the financial services industry. It provides a sturdy, adaptable and trustworthy...
Announcing the Charmed Kafka beta
By robgibbon, 12 December 2023
Charmed Kafka is a complete solution to manage the full lifecycle of Apache Kafka. The Canonical Data Fabric team is pleased to announce the first beta...
Charmed MongoDB: the operator you need for managing your document database
By Michelle Anne Tabirao, 6 December 2023
Charmed MongoDB primary mission is to simplify the MongoDB experience so it can be an operated database powerhouse.
Running MongoDB on Kubernetes
By Michelle Anne Tabirao, 31 October 2023
Running databases like MongoDB in public, private and hybrid environments provides multiple benefits. Kubernetes provides the additional advantages of...
Why we built a Spark solution for Kubernetes
By robgibbon, 17 October 2023
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...
Empowering Australian government innovation: a secure path to open source excellence
By Canonical, 5 September 2023
The Australian Federal Government is not alone in dealing with challenges like natural disasters, global pandemics and economic uncertainty. Like many...
How to secure your database
By Mohamed Wadie Nsiri, 18 August 2023
Cybersecurity threats are increasing in volume, complexity and impact. Yet, organisations struggle to counter these growing threats. Cyber attacks often...
Write a Spark big data job with ChatGPT
By robgibbon, 10 August 2023
I’ve read and watched more than a few articles about ChatGPT in the last couple of months. It seems the large language model AI hype machine just can’t stop. ...
MySQL high availability made charmingly easy
By Mohamed Wadie Nsiri, 18 July 2023
In a previous blog, we talked about patterns to run a database in a highly available manner. In this blog, we present our recipe for MySQL high availability....
Charmed Spark beta release is out – try it today
By robgibbon, 3 July 2023
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...
Big data security foundations in five steps
By robgibbon, 3 May 2023
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...