Digital Transformation - Investing in the Core

Digital Transformation is all the rage.  It’s a little like virtue:  everybody is rooting for it but few can actually articulate what it is!

I recently found some nice theoretical framework which simplifies its explanation.

We will first refer to that theoretical framework.  We will then articulate how it...

Azure Container Registry - Getting Started

When we looked at an overview of Container Services in Azure, we took a look at Azure Container Registry (ACR).

A Docker Registry holds Docker images in repositories.  Any agent can build & push those images.  Nodes running Docker containers can then pull those images.

The main...

Azure Container Instance - Getting Started

We’ve looked at an overview of Docker Containers in Azure.  One of the services we talked about is Azure Container Instance (ACI).

ACI allows us to start a Docker Container without a cluster, without even a VM.

It is ideal for bursting, recurrent jobs and dev-test.

We...

Getting started with Docker Containers in Azure

Let’s get started with Docker on Azure.

We’ll play a little with Docker Containers.  In our container overview we’ve done a tour of the different container managed services.

For a first hands on trial, we’ll go a little more low level and use Docker on a VM.  We’ll...

Python Version in Databricks

In the last few months, we’ve looked at Azure Databricks:

• Getting Started
• Resilient Distributed Dataset
• Spark SQL – Data Frames
• Transforming Data Frames in Spark
• Parsing escaping CSV files in Spark
• Import Notebooks in Databricks