The media is full of discussions of microservices and cloud-based infrastructure and for good reason. Encapsulating tasks into higher and higher abstractions is being shown by various large companies ...

While microservices are a relatively new concept, industry leaders have been using the same principles - namely high granularity of design, isolation, and automation - for years. And what they share s...

With Docker in Docker (DinD), by Jérôme Petazzoni, you can easily emulate a production, multi-container setup in a development environment. At Container Solutions we use Docker in Docker frequently, f...

We find that diagrams and drawings help us to get an overview of the impact a new technology has on existing processes. This also helps when explaining things to customers and colleagues. Obviously, n...

We’re not short of great technology meetups here in London, and the new Container Solution office based within this great city allows us to easily travel around and learn about the latest happenings! ...

Well, today is the end of the DCOSWeek. What happened.

The Apache Mesos cluster manager emerged from work out of Twitter and UC Berkeley around 2009. Over the last six years the Mesos project has kept a relatively low profile among mainstream technology p...

On Tuesday evening, after our DCOS event, we were sat around talking. I said that the problem with good management is that we don't recognise it when we see it. I then argued that CS must be well mana...

I attended the London Microservice User Group (LMSUG) July meetup last week, which focused on deployment infrastructure for microservice-based systems, and there was some great presentations. A lot of...