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Google Cloud Blog

Serverless Apache Spark on Google Cloud: Architecture Choices & AI Troubleshooting

In modern enterprise data engineering, Apache Spark remains a cornerstone framework for processing massive datasets at scale. However, managing infrastructure such as provisioning clusters, tuning YARN configurations, and avoiding costs for idle hardware often detracts from what matters most: building resilient data pipelines. Google Cloud addresses this operational overhead via its Managed Service for Apache Spark, offering flexible deployment modes of serverless and managed clusters tailored t

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Google Cloud Blog

How to modernize Apache Hive using Google Cloud’s Lakehouse runtime catalog

For over a decade, the Apache Hive Metastore (HMS) has served as the de facto metadata authority for big data analytics. Whether it was deployed on Hadoop clusters, self-managed Compute Engine VMs backed by MySQL or PostgreSQL, HMS provided the central schema registry that let Apache Spark, Presto, and Hive query raw .parquet and .orc files. However, as enterprise data architectures scale to petabytes and span multiple query engines (such as Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Spark, BigQuer

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Cloudflare Changelog

Cloudflare One Client - Cloudflare One Client for Windows (version 2026.7.1343.0)

A new GA release for the Windows Cloudflare One Client is now available on the stable releases downloads page. This release introduces multiple features from our previous beta release into stable release, including: When reauthentication is needed for any reason, the notifications are clearer and reduce the actions needed to get you back to work by redirecting to the browser for authentication instead of the app window when necessary. When a network is blocking or otherwise not supportive of HTT

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Cloudflare Changelog

Cloudflare One Client - Cloudflare One Client for macOS (version 2026.7.1343.0)

A new GA release for the macOS Cloudflare One Client is now available on the stable releases downloads page. This release introduces multiple features from our previous beta release into stable release, including: When reauthentication is needed for any reason, the notifications are clearer and reduce the actions needed to get you back to work by redirecting to the browser for authentication instead of the app window when necessary. When a network is blocking or otherwise not supportive of HTTP/

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Grafana Blog

Knowledge Graph as context for LLMs: demonstrating decisive RCA and faster production performance

On the product team here at Grafana Labs, we consider AI agents our users, too. That’s why we set out to test how well agents can debug incidents across the full stack, and how much better they perform with Grafana Cloud’s Knowledge Graph vs. using raw telemetry alone.  Our early results are promising. In one real incident we replayed 16 times each way, an agent with Knowledge Graph context found the correct root cause 15 times, compared with just once using raw telemetry alone. Along the way, w

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