Containers
Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators
Admiral Calcote, also known as Lee Calcote (@lcalcote) or the Ginger Geek to his friends, gave a presentation titled, "Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators," at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. Okay, he isn’t really an admiral—nor ...
Speaking for the Dead: Are ‘Agile’ and ‘Monolithic’ Actually Good?
What if Agile is the product of getting bored at work, microservices are the result of us needing a challenge and scrums are the result of an obsessive project manager? Do we ...
VMware Ties Desktop Virtualization to DevOps Productivity
It’s no secret that when it comes to building applications, many developers prefer to use the Apple Macintosh. However, that preference can create multiple DevOps challenges. VMware is moving to reduce the ...
SecOps: The Next Stride for DevOps
Global IT spending is now touching a figure of $4 trillion. In today's technology-intensive environment, data is the biggest commodity, more valuable and powerful than ever. And like Peter Parker's uncle Ben ...
Sonatype Report Spotlights Software Supply Chain Issues
Most application developers today don’t write much raw code. Rather, applications developed today are created mostly by combing various modules and widgets to create a custom application. But currently there is little ...
Q&A: Michael Beckley, CTO/CCO, Appian
Recently I had the chance to speak with Michael Beckley, chief technical officer and chief customer officer at Appian, about his company's move to go public and the DevOps space in general ...
Container Considerations on Your DevOps Journey
Containers are things for your things. That is true in the development world, too—containers are things for your software, and, like containers for your things, software containers can help you be organized, ...
5 Common Misconceptions of Serverless Technology
The rapid growth in serverless technology affords companies opportunities to save money on server costs and allows developers to save time and focus on coding rather than back-end operations. A challenge with ...
VMs, Containers, Cloud, Cluster: Scheduling Differences
Scheduling is a large part of making the data center go, and more to the point of making the virtualized (be it VMs, cloud, containers, or clustering) portion of the data center ...
Addressing Container Security Challenges
From month to month or even week to week, more organizations are developing with containers. The concept of containers isn’t all that new, but the dramatic rise in adoption of container technologies ...
Mesos Usage Survey: Big Clusters, Big Workloads
Mesosphere, purveyors of DC/OS, recently released a survey of Mesos users focused on Mesos deployment information. There were some interesting results, and a few things I wish they’d dug a little deeper ...
To DevOps Or Not To DevOps
Although enterprises today all claim to be software companies, there remain four distinct groups of organizations: the technology leaders, the technology followers, the technology hopefuls and the technology laggards. The first group ...

