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The recent controversy over Joyent’s stewardship of Node.js has made it easy to forget about the company’s other cloud and container projects. With its latest project, Joyent joins the ranks of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

Vagrant and Docker both provision resources needed to support cloud-native deployments, though they focus on different parts of the deployment stack. Developers use Vagrant to provision VMs upon which ...

A major form of confusion about containers says that they're a next-generation, lightweight replacement for VMs. But container advocates say that's never been the goal Repeat after me: Containers are ...

Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not advocate a position that is particular to the author’s employer and has been edited and approved by Network World editors. From certain angles, ...

As far as virtual machines in the public cloud go, bigger is better. At least that’s what Microsoft seems to believe in any case, if its new Azure G-Series VMs are anything to go by. Rolled out on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. Nov 07, 2014, 11:02am EST Nov 08, 2014, 11:31am EST This article is more than 10 ...

Cue this month's press release from Microsoft with its list of updates to the Azure public cloud platform, and cure some innovations that will make both developers and enterprises alike pleased. As ...