Jon Machtynger, Author at Microsoft Industry Blogs

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TechNet UK

Published 14/10/2021

Building Scalable Data Science Applications using Containers – Part 6

In this second article in a two-part miniseries, Jon Machtynger and Mark Whitby convert the previous docker-compose application to one that capitalises on a Kubernetes approach.

TechNet UK

Published 27/08/2021

Building Scalable Data Science Applications using Containers – Part 5

In this first of two blogs, Jon Machtynger takes a look at building an environment locally using docker-compose, while making some observations about limitations.

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TechNet UK

Published 03/10/2019

Using Containers to run R/Shiny workloads in Azure: Part 4

In the parts one, two and three of this series, I described how to build containers using Dockerfiles, then how to share and access them from Azure. In this part, we’ll move briefly away from Python to look at R together with Shiny as a dynamic reporting and visualisation capability pulling data from a Postgres database.

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Cross-industry

Published 07/06/2019

How to use containers in data science with Docker and Azure: Part 3

In part 3 of this series we will extend the container, persistence, and data science concept using multiple containers to create a more complex application.