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How to Avoid Cloud-Native Complexity
The more choices users have in your cloud-native application, the more complex it gets. Uncontrolled complexity, like entropy, always increases ...

How Containers Are Preparing Businesses For a Post-COVID-19 World
Containers hold great promise for business’s digital transformation initiatives as we enter 2021. Yet many organizations struggle with container monitoring; there are significant differences in the way containers are monitored versus other ...

Managing Databases in Kubernetes: What to Consider
Kubernetes continues to grow in popularity: According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), 84% of its annual survey respondents ran containers in production in 2019. Although the organizations responding would probably ...

5 Best Practices for Ensuring Secure Container Images
Most modern organizations understand that the earlier you integrate security into the development process, the more secure the applications will be in production. For containerized workloads, securing the container image throughout the ...

Microservices: A Welcome Disruption
Much is discussed about Kubernetes and containers, but the real benefit of this platform comes in the form of microservices—small, independently deployed functions that will define digital transformation. Microservices give us the ...

Is Kubernetes Finally Entering Its Application Phase?
Kubernetes as Infrastructure The last five years have seen Kubernetes grow from a new open source community to a mainstay of conversations about modern enterprise IT. But it’s fair to say those ...

Predictions 2020: The Killer App for Edge Computing in 2020 will be Kubernetes
Edge computing is aptly named. Aside from the literal reference to its network boundary location, edge computing represents the next frontier of innovation—the nascent space where anything can happen and the possibilities ...