At the core of any DevOps initiative is the judicious employment of containers and microservices, which dramatically speed up and simplifying the jobs of developers and operations teams alike. While ...

All you need to know about Linux containers and how DevOps, Docker and microservices are transforming the ways companies create and deliver applications. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1 ...

Docker CEO Steve Singh (left) and chief product officer Scott Johnston explained the container movement at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Over the last several ...

You can’t work for any length of time in the tech industry in 2017 without hearing or reading about microservices and container deployments. In the past four years alone, the proliferation of ...

It appears enterprise IT teams are having it both ways, a recent survey finds. Typically, microservices -- and accompanying containers -- are associated with newer, cloud-centric applications. But ...

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For quite some time now, people have been talking about a future for software which, rather than being based on monolithic IT stacks, is built up of microservices. Microservices are a simple concept.

Containers are a small, fast, and easy-to-set-up way to deploy and run software across different computing environments. By holding an application’s complete runtime environment, including libraries, ...

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VMware is the most unusual and unexpected player in the industry to ship a Linux distribution. Here is an analysis of what forced the virtualization giant to make this move. Not long ago, VMware was a ...

Today organizations large and small are exploring the adoption of cloud-native software technologies. “Cloud-native” refers to an approach that packages software within standardized units called ...

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