At Container Solutions we're big fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger. His 6 rules of success are highly motivational to us and we keep them in mind in our daily work. Of course we like to joke about them a ...
In this blog I will show you how to build Docker images from a Gradle task. A number of Docker plugins have been created for Gradle. I discuss the one from Benjamin Muschko which we use to build the s...
Yesterday, I was put on the spot by Pini and Jaroslav. I’ve been reading about strategy, and since I am the CEO of a company I am supposed to know about things like strategy and leadership, but when p...
Ideas that threaten to interrupt existing power structures, such as a move to DevOps or the introduction of container technology, nearly always lead to resistance. An oversimplified and often exaggera...
Drone is a continuous integration (CI) tool, a tool whose aim is to automate the building, testing and deploying of software. There are many CI tools available, with a lot of feature overlap. A compar...
I know I’m not the first person to say that the benefits being sold of microservices are very similar to that of objects in object-oriented programming (OOP) during the 80s and 90s e.g. you can easily...
Gradle is a popular and flexible build system for JVM-based languages. We use Gradle as the build system for Mesos Elasticsearch. In this blog I discuss two Gradle concepts: the Gradle wrapper and Gdu...
Why are developers and operations people so different? There is a theory in psychology called ‘regulatory focus theory’. This theory states that when a person pursues a goal, they’ll do so in a way th...
Nobody knows what a microservice is because the term is not defined. Or at least, it is defined but it's defined differently by different people and always in vague terms like ‘small’ and ‘independent...
