A HTTP proxy is an essential component if you have a slow Internet link, or are simply doing a lot of builds that require downloading a lot of data. I like the Polipo caching HTTP proxy as it’s simple and single threaded. I was a bit sad to discover that Polipo is no longer maintained, as of… Continue reading Container of the Week – clue/polipo
Month: September 2017
Container of the Week – kaggle/python
Machine Learning is a very popular field at the moment and is something that’s in the news and geek culture a lot. Kaggle is a machine learning competition site where you can take part in a (usually sponsored) competition to apply your skills and solve a real-world problem. Putting aside the controversial nature of spec work… Continue reading Container of the Week – kaggle/python
Changing a Docker container’s restart policy
While researching another article I discovered that it’s now possible to change the restart policy for a container without stopping, deleting and re-running it. Apparently this has also been possible for quite a long time, since Docker 1.11 was released in April 2016. The docker update command allows you to change the configuration of a container in several… Continue reading Changing a Docker container’s restart policy
Container of the Week: gettyimages/spark
This week we are looking at a container for Apache Spark. Spark is a cluster-computing framework for data processing, in particular MapReduce and more recently machine learning, graph analysis and streaming analytics. Clustered systems are sometimes difficult to run on a single machine, for example a laptop or desktop, as this use case is often not… Continue reading Container of the Week: gettyimages/spark