Node.js, JVM and the Surprising Results About Docker Swarm
JVM developers are focused on containerizing new as opposed to legacy apps.
Author: LawrenceHecht
What is Redis?
If you think of Redis first and foremost as a database, then you are probably not a Node.js developer. According to a RisingStack survey, 49 percent of Node.js developers use Redis for caching, 37 percent as a database and 2 percent as a messaging system. In other […]
DBaaS – Surprise, the Big Three Cloud Providers Lead
A recent survey found that almost half of respondents still prefer to run databases inside a virtual machine — 30 percent said they would rather utilize a Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering. When conducting their own research, DBaaS provider Tesora found that the most important criteria for DBaaS […]
Open Container Initiative Participation
Should community participants fork Docker to facilitate increased participation? And if so, should that activity occur within Open Container Initiative (OCI) projects? We don’t know the answers, but we have been evaluating the health of OCI projects. Using a dashboard created by Bitergia, we found that the number […]
Evolution or Revolution? Re-architecting Apps for Containers
It has taken years and years for legacy apps to slowly migrate to the cloud. Some speculate things might be different with containers. Yet, just like with general “cloud,” container usage has thrived most among startups and those deploying applications to greenfields. Just looking at the […]
Re-architecting for Containers Beyond the Greenfield
Companies that use both use CI and CD are more likely to be re-architecting legacy apps for containers.
Girls Outperform, Boys Drool
Women are more successful at getting pull requests accepted than men on GitHub. That’s the conclusion reported in an academic paper, Gender Differences and Bias in Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance of Women Versus Men. By comparing GitHub email addresses with self-reported gender on Google+, researchers found […]
Old Apps, Bad Apps
In software, there are few oldies but goodies. Yet, perhaps we shouldn’t accuse developers of ageism. Sonatype’s 2016 Software Supply Chain report looked at 1,000 repository managers and the components they manage. Components more than two years old account for over 53 percent of the software parts development […]
Container Use on Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services continues to be the 800-lb gorilla in the public cloud space, with 41 percent of container users saying they deploy containers most frequently to AWS. Among this group, only a quarter say AWS EC2 Container Service (ECS) is the method of container deployment used most often. […]
A Scan of the Container Vulnerability Scanner Landscape
Container registries and vulnerability scanners are often bundled together, but they are not the same thing.
Docker on AWS, On premises K8s internally?
Two-thirds of container users say they deploy most frequently on either AWS or internal data centers. For AWS, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes vie with ECS to be the preferred orchestration tool. Docker doesn’t do as well for on premises container deployment. Internally developed tools are used […]
Number of Nodes Matters
As the number of nodes or machines managing containers in production increases, so does the need for container orchestration tools. As the size of deployments increase, tooling decisions become more important. As we wrote about last week, Kubernetes and HashiCorp see the largest uptick in use as deployment scales increase. […]