Oracle Magazine, Nov/Dec 2017
ARCHITECT ORACLE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2017 21 Oracle ACE Associate Maarten Smeets senior integration consultant with AMIS also sees enormous value in the use of containers and distinct advantages over the alternatives especially large scale application server implementations he notes Containers offer relief from a number of issues including difficulties in providing largescale implementations when using application servers problems with automatically provisioning and scaling stateful application servers and the impact on availability when an entire system must be shut down to resolve certain issues Smeets appreciates that containers offer an additional benefit through their compatibility with Node js the wildly popular JavaScript runtime This makes JavaScript skills useful for different layers in the stack and also makes it possible to reduce the amount of translations and layers that have to be made to go from front end to back end It all adds up to reduced development effort easier environment management and optimized performance But despite the clear benefits Smeets says his customers arent quite in step Most customers I work with implement application servers or database bound integration platforms not the most suitable match for containerization he says But he predicts the limitations of those architectures and the benefits of using containers will force the foot draggers to reconsider containers Dr Frank Munz Oracle ACE Director Oracle Developer Champion software architect and cloud evangelist reports that at least two of his customers had no reluctance at all to adopting containers Both were cloud native projects Both used Docker None of them ever faced any container specific issues he says In one project the decision for Docker was made simply because it seemed to be part of a modern development stack And in the Containers are lightweight can easily be shared with colleagues and are simply available ready to use for most popular technologies Lucas Jellema CTO AMIS
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