Virtual containers are among the hottest technologies in the software development world today. Containerization is an approach to virtualization in which apps and all their components are packaged up ...

Docker is an important tool for developers and for running apps across networks, and it has many uses for the pro and ...

To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. This ...

Part I of this Deep Dive on containers introduces the idea of kernel control groups, or cgroups, and the way you can isolate, limit and monitor selected userspace applications. Here, I dive a bit ...

Kubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration—that is, for managing applications built from multiple, largely self-contained runtimes called containers. Containers have ...

Use Jelastic's container-based PaaS to ease the migration of your VM-based Java applications into modern container clusters Ruslan Synytsky is CEO and co-founder of Jelastic. Hardware virtualization ...

Recent shifts are driving the adoption of a number of technologies and tools, including containers, which are garnering big attention from investors. Gartner predicts that by 2016, nearly 25% of the ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Containers encapsulate discrete components of application logic provisioned only with the minimal resources needed to do their job. Unlike virtual machines (VM), containers have no need for embedded ...

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