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.
infrastructure
Rebase on the World
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 …
Migrating some services from AWS to Pivotal Web Services
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 …
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