The Met Office is a world leading weather forecasting and climate research organisation. It owns one of Europe’s largest supercomputers and generates data on the exabyte scale. Jacob Tomlinson is a developer and systems engineer at the Informatics Lab - the innovation unit within the Met Office. He leads their R&D efforts on new infrastructure technologies. Jacob uses Kubernetes and Docker to transform how the Met Office makes data accessible to the world.
Talks I've Given
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Killing containers to make weather beautiful
Featuring Jacob Tomlinson
The Met Office Informatics Lab includes scientists, developers and designers. We build prototypes exploring new technologies to make environmental data useful. Here we describe a recent project to process multi-dimensional weather data to create a fully interactive 4D browser application. We used...