Jul 14, 2017 — The Research Container Standard — Containers, on the level of the operating system, are like houses. We carry an expectation that we find food in the kitchen, a bed in a bedroom, and toiletries in a bathroom. We can imagine a fresh Ubuntu image is... Read more

Apr 23, 2017 — Multiprocessing for Faster Downloads — Has this ever happened to you? Today I woke up and wanted to know if I could download a file faster. Specifically, this would be for the Singularity back end Python API that does the simple streaming of Docker layers... Read more

Mar 19, 2017 — Serving Singularity Containers — I wanted to make a web application that understood containers. As a researcher, or a developer, I want to be able to drop my containers into a folder, and then have the application serve them without any additional work. So... Read more

Jan 29, 2017 — R Analysis in a Container — I met a data scientist named Joris Muller via one of my general statistics blog feeds, and he was working on cool project to show how easy it was to make reproducible workflows. I thought this was awesome, and wanted... Read more