The container space is starting to heat up. For a quick review on containers—what they are and when to use them—review my colleague’s article here. Docker is starting to seem increasingly isolated in this space, which it dominated with its early mover advantage before appearing to get sideswiped by the later entrants.
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Containers: When Are They the Best Choice?
I keep hearing, “Do you have a container for that, or are containers are the only way to move to the cloud?” and many other phrases of that ilk. So, the questions I have to ask are “When is the best time to use containers? Can you use them for everything, and should you?” Those …
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Microsoft Connect 2017: they Expand Azure with Databricks and other anouncements.
Microsoft is introducing new tools to the aid the Cloud developer to increase productivity and app development at their recent Connect event. Scot Guthrie EVP Cloud and Enterprise group in Microsoft outlined their vision and shared what’s next for developers across a broad range of Microsoft and open source technologies, and how Microsoft will help …
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Like Cloud and Virtualization, Serverless Computing Is Still Someone Else’s Computer
Today, serverless is all the rage. In the beginning, we had the server. Then along came virtualization, and things were good. We saved money. We could purchase less tin but run more servers. We could easily see the benefits of moving in that direction: lower power requirements, less hardware needing cooling down in our computer …
DockerCon 2017 Roundup
Recently I attended DockerCon in Austin, Texas. Docker has been gaining an increased amount of interest in the enterprise for both building new greenfield applications and migrating legacy applications. Docker has become synonymous with microservices-based architectures, but enterprises are mired in legacy applications. In my experience, well over 90% of all workloads in enterprises are …
Docker, Modernizing Traditional Applications
DockerCon 2017 was about modernizing traditional applications, or MTA. MTA is the lifting and shifting of traditional Microsoft Windows base applications into Docker containers. Its approach is reminiscent of 2009. For Docker to grow into brownfield data centers, this is a must. However, could it be doing more? If so, what is it doing that could …
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