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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 […]
This week I spent some time working through the excellent guides from Saintdle to build new TKG management and workload clusters in Azure. I could write up my own how to and deployment guide here, However, Dean has done a fantastic job of documenting the deployment of the TKG resources within Azure, look no further […]
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event The VMware Tanzu Solution Engineering team is opening up to run a day of demos on April 27th VMware Tanzu brings a raft of new possibilities to the vSphere platform and beyond, providing capabilities and services to build and scale cloud applications anywhere. At the event attendees will learn […]
vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin As part of a recent Canadian UserCon event myself and Dean Lewis poured many hours of blood, sweat and swearing into creating the session “vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin”. The basic premise of the presentation was […]
Run Microsoft SQL Server Linux inside Kubernetes on VMware Tanzu
Need a summer read? Look no further – here are my book recommendations summer 2020. I was recently asked for some book recommendations, good for a summer read. A short list turned into a long list, and given what they and I do for a living there was bound to a technology focus!
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 […]
Workload Management NSX-T 3 – Unable to access CLI tool download page When deploying workload management into your vSphere infrastructure with NSX-T 3 you may encounter an issue where it is not possible to access the vSphere hosted site to download the kubectl-vsphere binary. The fix for this issue is documented in this VMware Cloud […]