operating systems
How Containers and VMs Can Coexist
Nowadays, more and more companies are moving to container-based infrastructure. However, virtual machines (VMs) still hold a significant part of the market. For many organizations, migrations from VMs to containers is a ...
Are Containers Killing the Operating System?
The operating system was once the most important part of your software stack. In today’s containerized world, however, operating systems are dead—well, almost. Let me explain. Traditionally, when production environments ran on ...
Docker’s Big Differentiator from VMs: Density
What makes Docker containers so popular and more attractive in some cases than virtual machines? The answer is density. Here’s what it means and why it matters. In the context of computing, ...