Wercker Adds Managed Virtual Pipelines to CI/CD Service

Wercker Adds Managed Virtual Pipelines to CI/CD Service

They say the journey is its own reward. But when it comes to making the shift to entirely new approaches to building and deploying applications, many organizations prefer to focus on the ...
AWS Stokes Container Management Debate

AWS Stokes Container Management Debate

Amazon Web Services is gearing up to throw its weight around in the debate over container management and orchestration. At the re:Invent 2016 conference, AWS announced plans to create a Blox project ...
SAP Approach to Microservices Comes into Focus

SAP Approach to Microservices Comes into Focus

SAP is now starting to use of multiple types of containers to make external applications available as a microservice that provide access to live data. When it comes to containers, SAP currently ...
Axway Marries API Management to Microservices

Axway Marries API Management to Microservices

One of the issues that containers and microservices usually bring to a head inside any organization is the need for a more mature approach to API management. As the number of more ...
MapR Extends Microservices Support in Hadoop

MapR Extends Microservices Support in Hadoop

There’s clearly a lot of interest these days in building stateful applications using containers, but not much agreement about how best to go about it. A large number of approaches have been ...
LinkedIn Shares Container Memory Usage Experience

LinkedIn Shares Container Memory Usage Experience

One of the more widely used mechanism for limiting consumption of memory resources in IT environments running containers is Control Groups, otherwise known as cgroups, that can be found inside the Linux ...
Make Containers Contain and Work for You

Make Containers Contain and Work for You

Docker containers have become an important tool in the developer’s toolbox. Adoption of this technology has been phenomenal. To date, Docker has surpassed 2 billion container downloads, which increased at a tremendous ...
AWS Sees Rapid Microservices Architecture Evolution

AWS Sees Rapid Microservices Architecture Evolution

Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes IT infrastructure management is evolving too rapidly for the average IT organization to keep pace. Starting with the deployment of containers in a production environment, Werner Vogels, AWS ...
VMware Ties Kubernetes to Integrated OpenStack

VMware Ties Kubernetes to Integrated OpenStack

As part of a broader effort to make sure that VMware virtual machines are employed within an OpenStack environment, VMware this week at an OpenStack East conference demonstrated how an open source ...
Oracle Makes Hybrid Cloud Case for Container Strategy

Oracle Makes Hybrid Cloud Case for Container Strategy

When it comes to hybrid cloud computing involving containers, the three leading cloud service providers are still somewhat challenged. Amazon Web Services (AWS) doesn’t really sanction private clouds running on-premises, while Microsoft ...