Docker: Why are containers important?

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…

Docker: The Moby project, Docker products

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…

Docker : What are containers?

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…

Git : What is Git

Version control Let’s begin our exploration of Git, by gaining an understanding of what it is and what it can do for you. Git is software that keeps track of changes that you make to files and directories. And it’s…

Java Lambda Expressions

This post explores Oracle’s Java 8 specification for lambda expression , the syntax and use cases. Lambda expressions can be used as method arguments or to iterate, filter, and extract data from a collection.