With containers and serverless computing options somewhat occupying a similar position in terms of cloud utilization, could there be room for both? Commentary on whether both containers and serverless ...

Linux Containers (LXC) are a lightweight virtualization technology that allows you to run multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single host. Unlike traditional virtual machines, containers ...

The application container market is expected to grow to $2.7 billion by 2020 up from $762m in 2016, according to the latest note from 451 Research. The analysts put app containers in the overall ...

Focus on open source viewed as helping to avoid vendor lock in. Bob Quillin, vice president for developer relations at Oracle, in a blog post described the platform as a mix between an integrated ...

Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. While it’s well known that cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally changing ...

For the past decade, Kubernetes has been the dominant force in cloud-native computing and in enterprise software generally, as cloud providers and their customers have turned toward running their ...

Cloudways is a cloud platform offering support for organizations that need to run web-applications. Competing with other web-application hosting services like Pantheon and Pressable, Cloudways offers ...

We tend to believe that state-of-the-art technology, in particular the technology for essential services, is built upon a series of cumulative advancements. In other words, progress is linear and we ...