Open Sourcerers
San Francisco, June 9-10, 2014. In the halls of the Marriott Marquis hotel, the first DockerCon is held. “Containers everywhere!” is printed on the back of event T-shirts. The first big news of DockerCon is the launch of Docker 1.0, but there is much more to come. It is the beginning of what is later […]
Target group: If you are a solution architect or consultant looking for some references of distributed data messaging solutions at a high level, this is an article for you. As well, if you are experiencing significant growth at your company and your messaging system is struggling to handle the volume of traffic, you experience frequent […]
The year 2022 was all about Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has found mainstream success and wide introduction to the masses, with applications such as PhotoAI, Lensa, Dream by Wombo and most notably: GPT-3 by OpenAI (fun fact: the T in GPT stands for transformer!) Many successful app creators have used the OpenAI’s API to create […]
As a person with years of academic experience as a linguist and deep love for learning languages, I’ve been pretty much used to discovering all the intricacies of different language systems and comparing them with each other. However, even when I developed an enthusiasm for programming, I still treated natural and programming languages as two […]
10 years ago companies were desperately trying to implement new technologies to manage and operate their virtual machines. They do so with some kind of “Multi Cloud Management Software” or with a managed tool from a hypervisor of their choice at the time being, like vCenter from VMware. There was also a nice software in […]
Sometimes things happen, and then you need to jump in. You might have deducted from a couple of our posts in the past, mainly around Year-End, that we have a couple of Chief-Editors for this weekly publication. And as there also sometimes someone needs to be the Chief of the Chiefs, we decided, that I […]
The Fallacies of Distributed Computing Many years ago we moved away from monolithic applications and started to develop our app as a network of smaller services, the microservice architecture. This brought many advantages and we finally had fun again developing large business applications. But we were also being introduced to the Fallacies of Distributed Computing […]
The current situation At the moment 2 focus areas prevail in the IT industry. Flexibility In the age of ever-changing customer preferences, flexibility is an important asset. It is about providing customers with new opportunities to realize their goals. And to provide ease of use, ease of integration with existing processes and systems while doing […]
Introduction This article is a step by step example, how to develop, build and deploy a cloud native application with its infrastructure components. This cloud native application uses OpenShift as the underlying application platform with following features: The use case is a feedback form, where users can give their feedback. The repositories for this application […]
In the year 2023 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Docker and the 9th anniversary of Kubernetes. Container technology has now become mainstream. But recent advances in the Podman ecosystem prove that innovation in the container world is still happening at a strong pace. Podman 4 was released in February 2022 and brought considerable improvements […]