Oracle Magazine, Nov/Dec 2017
ARCHITECT ORACLE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2017 20 Getting Into Containers Small packages Big value In the continuing quest to examine the point at which trends in IT and architecture gain traction with reality I thought it was about time to focus on containers and their use among members of the community Are these standalone executable packages of code runtime and system tools making a difference in the work of architects and developers Lucas Jellema CTO at AMIS in the Netherlands Oracle ACE Director and Oracle Developer Champion confesses to being strongly influenced by containers Containers have been a catalyst for my thinking about application and platform architectures he says The importance of stateless applications in order to allow horizontal scalability and easy failover is a drastic shift from the heavy session oriented server side web applications of the past 15 years On a personal practical level Jellema uses containers to make better use of the laptop he uses for R D I used to quickly make a mess of my laptop with new tools platforms and frameworks I was experimenting with he says Virtual machines offered some help but were subject to his laptops memory and hard disk limitations Containers are lightweight can easily be shared with colleagues and are simply available ready to use for most popular technologies saving me lots of time and anguish he explains By Bob Rhubart
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