These days, the time between new releases of an application become shorter and shorter, yet the software itself doesn’t become any simpler. On the contrary, software projects increase in complexity. Thus, we need a way to tame the beast and…
Originally, when Docker (the company) introduced Docker containers, everything was open source. Docker didn’t have any commercial products at this time. The Docker engine that the company developed was a monolithic piece of software. It contained many logical parts, such…
A software container is a pretty abstract thing, so it might help if we start with an analogy that should be pretty familiar to most of you. The analogy is a shipping container in the transportation industry. Throughout history, people…