Cloud-Native Development
Key Considerations in Container Adoption
Today, containers have attained near-ubiquitous adoption as an application deployment medium—and with their proven stability and increased standardization, container formats and their runtime engines are becoming a de facto deployment option for ...
Information Builders Embraces Containers for Analytics
Information Builders today announced it is making its analytics software available via Docker containers that can be employed to facilitate the movement of analytics between platforms or create “sandboxes” on public clouds ...
Rapid Kubernetes Growth Creates Some Pain
Survey results show increased Kubernetes use, but challenges remain A survey of 500 attendees at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 Europe conference finds that nearly half the respondents (47%) are now ...
Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes: Which Applications Benefit?
Application design always presents developers with a series of trade-offs. No approach is perfect for every deployment. While the market is abuzz about microservices, containers and Kubernetes—for many good reasons—instances arise when ...
CircleCI Extends Kubernetes Reach of CI/CD Platform
CircleCI has extended the reach of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform into the realm of Kubernetes via technology partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat and Kublr. Also, ...
4 Reasons Container Adoption Remains Slowish
Docker is now about 6.5 years old. But evidence suggests that only a minority of production workloads are containerized. Here’s a look at why container adoption is relatively low and what needs ...
Could Containers Become a Desktop Technology?
Among the many differences between containers and virtual machines is that containers are used almost exclusively in server applications. In contrast, there is a healthy market for virtual machines on both desktop ...
Why Windows Containers Are Less Attractive Than Linux Containers
The fact that you can run Docker containers on Windows as well as Linux is amazing. Yet, I sometimes struggle to see a clear use case for Windows containers. Compared to Linux ...
Mirantis to Support Multiple Kubernetes Distributions
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 conference this week, Mirantis announced it will support instances of Kubernetes that IT organizations have rolled out on their own in addition to its own distribution ...
Capital One Makes Kubernetes Platform Available
At the Collision 2019 conference, Capital One announced it is making Critical Stack, an instance of the Kubernetes cluster it relies on to drive deployment of its own modern cloud-native applications, available ...

