Hosting Data Apps - Everything you wanted to know

What Is New in ShinyProxy 3.1.0

ShinyProxy 3.1.0 was released on May 7, 2024. The new version comes with lots of new features and improvements. Let's see the highlights!

4 min read May 7, 2024

Heroku public

Scaling Shiny Apps for Python and R: Sticky Sessions on Heroku

Peter Solymos

Scaling Shiny apps requires load balancing with session affinity which is not a trivial matter. Read on to see how to do that on Heroku.

12 min read Nov 7, 2022

R public

Manage Dependencies with the deps R Package for Docker Containers

Peter Solymos

The deps package gives you a lightweight option to manage package dependencies and you can install these inside containers.

7 min read Oct 15, 2022

Python public

Containerizing Shiny for Python and Shinylive Applications

Peter Solymos

Shiny for Python brings easy interactivity to web applications that build on the data and scientific stack of Python. Containerizing Py-Shiny apps is the next step towards deployment to a wide array of hosting options, including static hosting.

6 min read Oct 5, 2022

Quarto public

How to Set Up Quarto with Docker, Part 2: Dynamic Content

Peter Solymos

Quarto is next generation R Markdown that brings interactivity to documents using widgets, Observable, and Shiny. Let's see how to add server side execution to your Docker containers.

5 min read Aug 4, 2022

Quarto public

How to Set Up Quarto with Docker, Part 1: Static Content

Peter Solymos

Learn how to work with Quarto inside a Docker container so that you can render and serve HTML documents and projects with ease.

8 min read Jul 27, 2022

Docker public

We Need to Talk About Docker Registries

Peter Solymos

A Docker registry stores Docker images, this is where we push images to and pull images from. Why do we need a registry? What registries are out there? How can we work with them? Read on to find out.

5 min read Jul 22, 2022

Rmarkdown public

Containerizing Interactive R Markdown Documents

Peter Solymos

R Markdown is a reproducible authoring format supporting dozens of static and dynamic output formats. Let's review why and how you should containerize Rmd files.

10 min read Jul 8, 2022

News public

UseR!2022: Best Practices for Shiny Apps with Docker and More

Peter Solymos

The useR!2022 global and all-virtual conference took place between June 20 and 23. In this post, I recount presentations related to Shiny and container technology.

5 min read Jun 29, 2022