The Cloud Native Paradigm Shift: Are You Ready?

    At Container Solutions, when we say we help companies transform themselves into Cloud Native entities, we use that term for a very specific reason. Cloud Native is a major paradigm shift, not just the...

    6 min read

    The Power of Value Hierarchies in Enterprise Cloud Native (and everywhere else, too)

    Dynamic companies (or programmes of work) need a way of rapidly making day to day decisions without seeking consent or approval. One way to do this is with a value hierarchy. A value hierarchy explain...

    13 min read

    Why Do Cloud Migrations Fail?

    This is part four in series of blogs about strategy. The third part is here. The starting point is here.

    9 min read

    A Monolith Is a Burning Platform

    Monoliths gained popularity because they were safe: easy to build, easy to operate, and secure. They were in fact the way software was built for a fairly long time. But the way we build things is chan...

    Programming Languages for Microservices (and Containers)

    I'm not a programming language elitist. I'm not going to tell you that you're doing things wrong by using Java or Kotlin or Fortran or Eiffel or $insert programming language here$. It's highly unlikel...

    Structure is Not Enough; Or, Why People Matter

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    What Does a Good Career in Tech (or Anything Else) Look Like?

    Using Compose to go from Docker to Kubernetes

    This is a cross post from Jérôme Petazzoni (http://jpetazzo.github.io/). We are proud to be promoting Jérôme's upcoming Docker and Kubernetes trainings in Montreal and Quebec City.

    Contributing to Kubernetes: Open-Source Citizenship

    I’ve been using Kubernetes for a while now and decided it was time to be a responsible open-source citizen, and contribute some code. So I started combing their issue tracker, looking for a relatively...