:loudspeaker: New Feature available: FlexFunctions...
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📢 New Feature available: FlexFunctions! We’re excited to announce the release of *FlexFunctions*—now live in GoodData Cloud as a Beta feature! FlexFunctions is a new type of data source that contains functions and runs as a server by calling remote procedures using the Apache Arrow Flight RPC protocol. Key Benefits:Enables new use cases: Ideal for situations where there are high compute needs or on-the-fly large crunching of data sets (think applying benchmarking, working with current/historical FX rates, or other live streaming use cases) • Data Source Flexibility: FlexFunctions can connect to data in many ways -- from external APIs, integrated DBs, SQL, or even by querying GoodData • Highly Efficient: Data is transferred in a columnar format through FlightRPC 🛠️ Feature Rollout: • Available today in GoodData Cloud as a Beta feature • Anticipating to go GA in GoodData Cloud next month • Support for GoodData.CN coming soon • FlexFunction templates are available on GitHub now 🎥 Demo Video: See it in action. 📃 Documentation: Full guide on using FlexFunctions. Feel free to reach out with any questions! We look forward to your feedback on FlexFunctions!
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