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Docker Desktop features a simplified security context that masks many errors and failures behind the veil of a VM. Even ...

Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in ...

The concept of observability and how to extend it through cloud native applications has become more and more important for developers, especially when using products and services from Docker Inc. — a ...

When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern cloud applications. Microsoft needed a way ...

The monolith of traditional enterprise software architecture has been crumbling for many years. The introduction of microservices and containers has the potential to speed this process and give big ...

Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...