Tag Archives: containers

Power BI Desktop on the Mac

Posted on May 10, 2018 by way0utwest

Power Bi is one of the neatest tools that Microsoft has built for data professionals. It allows anyone to build fantastic interactive visualizations that can help tell a story and help someone make decisions. There have been some amazing demo … Continue reading →

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Containing the Work

Posted on March 6, 2017 by way0utwest

Containment is becoming more prevalent in the computer world. We have containers coming to Windows Server 2016 (or earlier versions with WinDocks), a concept that’s been embraced in the Linux world for some time. If you haven’t looked at containers, … Continue reading →

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Containers and Databases

Posted on February 28, 2017 by way0utwest

There’s this push to use ever thinner and lighter weight computing techniques. We moved from mainframes to servers to blades to VMs, and now many developers are looking at containers more and more. What started as a Linux idea popularized … Continue reading →

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Trying Spoon

Posted on September 23, 2015 by way0utwest

I ran into Kenji Obata of Spoon earlier this year and we ended up chatting about their technology. If you’ve never heard of them, they use container technology to allow applications to run on a Windows host, but separated from … Continue reading →

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