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What Happens to DevOps when the Kubernetes Adrenaline Rush Ends?

Kubernetes has been around for nearly 10 years now. In the past five years, we’ve seen a drastic increase in adoption by engineering teams of all sizes. The promise of standardization of deployments and scaling across different types of applications, from static websites to full-blown microservice solutions, has fueled this sharp increase.

Visualizing MongoDB with Grafana Cloud

Learn to connect your MongoDB data and other data sources to a single dashboard to provide impactful insights into your business and improve visibility across teams. Vijay Tolani will demonstrate how to translate and transform your existing application and business metrics into flexible and versatile charts within dashboards using a wide array of visualizations, such as panels, bar gauges, geomaps, and more. Also query and alert on MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas data in real time without having to migrate or ingest it.

Grafana Labs' new AI-powered chatbot

Got questions about Grafana? Just ask Grot, Grafana's new AI-powered chatbot (still in beta). Built in partnership with Pal, a company that creates AI assistants for businesses, and inspired by our bulbous dino mascot, Grot the chatbot has been trained with large language models (LLM) on Grafana Labs’ own content. It can help you easily answer just about any question about our Grafana LGTM Stack, our open and composable hosted Grafana Cloud platform, and more — regardless of how narrow or broad the query might be or what language is set in your browser.

Why is Spark So Slow? 5 Ways to Optimize Spark Today

When Apache Spark works well, it works really well. Sometimes, though, users find themselves asking this frustrating question. Spark is such a popular large-scale data processing framework because it is capable of performing more computations and carrying out more stream processing than many other data processing solutions. Compared to popular conventional systems like MapReduce, Spark is 10-100x faster.