Simplified Dataflow Connectors with Managed I/O- Google Developers Blog

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Introduced Managed I/O for Google Cloud Dataflow, which automates the management of Apache Beam I/O connector versions, offers standardized Java and Python APIs for sources and sinks (e.g., Iceberg, Kafka, BigQuery), and automatically optimizes connectors for the Dataflow runner. Benchmarks demonstrate improved performance and efficiency for batch and streaming pipelines.