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 ...

Enterprise use of containers — those simple, portable software wrappers for applications — is set to explode, with up to 80 percent of organizations expected to be in production by the end of this ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lot has been written about containers, especially Docker and the Open Container Project. People think that this is a very fast-paced technology, but it has been around since the inception of Linux.

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 ...

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 ...

You can’t go to a developer conference today and not hear about software containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and a bunch of other names with a nautical ring to them.[/tc_dropcap] Microsoft, Google, ...