On the importance of using Docker 🐳
I have always talked about the importance of adopting agile methodology in analytics projects. With the fast pace of data acquisition and the immense volume of data points collected every hour in certain domains, being able to iterate and deploy very fast is a vital necessity in today's cutting-edge era. fish swallows an Egyptian soldier in a mosaic scene depicting the splitting of the Red Sea from the Exodus story I wanted to share some thoughts on a very important set of technologies that are widely used in certain organizations in the automation, the deployment and the running of robust and stable data products. I am most certainly sure that you have heard of Docker! That big blue smiling whale 🐳 Below, I will boil down in simple terms what is it and why I believe it is an important tool in the field of data analytics. What is Docker ? Simply put, Docker is an open-source application that utilizes the container paradigm at its...