Part I of this Deep Dive on containers introduces the idea of kernel control groups, or cgroups, and the way you can isolate, limit and monitor selected userspace applications. Here, I dive a bit ...

To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. This ...

Kubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration—that is, for managing applications built from multiple, largely self-contained runtimes called containers. Containers have ...

Recent shifts are driving the adoption of a number of technologies and tools, including containers, which are garnering big attention from investors. Gartner predicts that by 2016, nearly 25% of the ...

Containers encapsulate discrete components of application logic provisioned only with the minimal resources needed to do their job. Unlike virtual machines (VM), containers have no need for embedded ...

Docker Platform Enhancements for Multi-Container Distributed Applications Docker’s orchestration capabilities build on the foundations of the open platform which established Docker containers as the ...

AWS Lightsail is a Virtual Private Server environment that is designed to for use by small businesses or developers. Although Lightsail is primarily geared toward hosting web applications, Amazon made ...

Having already provided developers with virtual machines (VM) and containers, enterprise computing has now rolled out serverless programming (Fig. 1). This migration takes advantage of the growth in ...

DevOps, containers and microservices are eating software development just as software is eating the world. But with the explosive growth of these technologies and methodologies, it’s becoming ...