The world of consumption has changed to everything as a service. Be it the way we consume movies and music to our office productivity tools, personal data storage, health and wellness, even our day-to-day shopping experience for consumer goods. The evolution of technology played a huge role in this. People no longer download songs or movies, nor do we buy CDs and DVDs for our personal entertainment. Rather we are now in a world where OTT (Over the Top) has become the default.

Ocean for Apache Spark has featured support for integration with Jupyter notebooks for quite some time – for details, please see our documentation. However, many developers would like to have this interactive notebook within their familiar IDE, such as VS Code, so that they can benefit from other IDE built-in features including Git integration. This article describes how to use VS Code to run Jupyter notebooks, while the code executes on an Ocean for Apache Spark cluster.

Cloud native architectures using Kubernetes and microservices have brought a lot of flexibility, enabling teams to release more applicative updates and do it multiple times a day for tens or even hundreds of services.

FinOps, or cloud financial operations, is a method that helps organizations bring financial accountability to their cloud’s operational expenses. To see success, the cross-functional teams leading FinOps efforts — including finance, IT, and business professionals — need the right tools to manage and optimize their cloud costs.