Why we have containers
One day a baby app was completed. It was so excited to run! But where would it run? and how? Its problems are only just beginning.
One day a baby app was completed. It was so excited to run! But where would it run? and how? Its problems are only just beginning.
We build our software in a particular world, a world of technologies that we link together. We choose a programming system (language, runtime, framework), libraries, and environment. We integrate components: databases, logging, and many different services. Perhaps we built it on Java 8 running on VMs in our datacenter, connecting to a proprietary queuing service … Read moreRebase on the World
My objective is to run some services on Pivotal Web Services (PWS; hosted instance of Pivotal Cloud Foundry), and have them respond to requests to `https://survey.atomist.com` at various paths. Currently these services run on AWS, along with services that respond at other subdomains of atomist.com. TL;DR: this is easy enough for HTTP requests and prohibitively … Read moreMigrating some services from AWS to Pivotal Web Services