Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon. He has authored several books. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and lives in Colorado. When Amazon was still known more as a bookstore than a technology ...

Who knew that Microsoft would one day run software you didn't have to pay for ...

Containers are a serious and emerging contender as a method of application delivery. Although they are by no means in use universally yet, most enterprises have deployed containers somewhere or are ...

Google LLC today announced that virtual machine support in Anthos is now generally available, allowing customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform.

For its 18th code release, issued today, the OpenStack community is making the software easier to deploy on bare metal. The release, named “Rocky,” takes advantage of the way physical servers are ...

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AWS has introduced Lambda MicroVMs, built on its Firecracker virtual machine monitor, which can run isolated Linux containers ...

Virtual machines may have a higher performance overhead compared to containers, but they’re perfect for experimenting with different operating systems. As someone who typically runs weird experiments ...

Much of the industry seems to agree that containers aren't going to replace virtual machines any time soon. But people are certainly thinking about it. At OpenStack Silicon Valley (OSSV) this past ...

The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs ...