Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
Streamlit powered What To Watch App A comon conversation in the house after we’ve finshed work and eaten begins, “What shall we watch…” This is often followed by browsing the various apps for streaming providers, trying to find something that we had been watching, want to watch or just searching for inspiration. Sometimes it feels […]
Data is the new oil Data is the new oil, or so it is stated almost everywhere. What that means is open to interpretation, it could mean anything from unlocking data is the key to driving revenue or it could mean that data is buried beneath many layers and difficult to extract. I enjoy working […]
Police API Stop and Search lookup with Streamlit Following on from the quick API demo I built for the Vehicle Enquiry Service API, I wanted to revisit some work I’d previously done that used the UK Police Data API along with metabase and other technologies to help interrogate public policing data. Using the streamlit library […]
Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo The Goal To build a web based application that allows the retrieval of vehicle information from the UK DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service API and package that in a container for simplified distribution. A Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo if you like. I’m building this because I find it […]
Pets, Cattle, Ants Pets vs cattle as an analogy to manage IT assets and cloud infrastructure is a decade old. Even before this observation became commonplace, this is something that I’d seen first-hand. When I came into the IT industry, I was often supporting assets named after Knights of the Round Table, Lord of the […]
Deploying Tanzu SQL to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters I’ve been reading up on the Tanzu SQL announcements I found a bit of time to have a look and some space on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) cluster deployed via the excellent TKG demo appliance fling. What Tanzu SQL does is enables us to operate a […]
Run Microsoft SQL Server Linux inside Kubernetes on VMware Tanzu
What is the role of Robotic Process Automation in Digital Transformation? I was recently asked a few questions that got me thinking what is the role of Robotic Process Automation in Digital Transformation? So what prompted that? Well, I had the privilege of presenting globally to my VMware colleagues as part of the internal RADIO […]
Perfect 2020 Vision with VMware Skyline Recently the VMware Skyline team announced a raft of new features and improvements to the VMware Skyline service. Building improvements into Log Assist, adding support for IPv6, new options within findings and recommendations, optional additional checks for https connections and UX improvements. The full release notes can be found […]
Interrogating data using modern applications I love working with data and with visualisations. I am often at my happiest when working with a large data set trying to find the answer to questions or trying to present data in a way that make it more accessible without losing its meaning. In the UK, government departments […]