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They've been "forgotten" because they've become so mainstream that they're now part of the norm.
by streblo 7y ago
They've been "forgotten" because they've become so mainstream that they're now part of the norm.
- nailer 7y agoContainers are a mild improvement over existing technology. Nobody cares whether your cloud provider uses containers, older tech, or newer tech.
- nailer 7y agoClarifying above: VMs, containers, and MicroVMs are all a box to run code and some surrounding orchestration mechanisms to standardize and make configuration portable. They're all part of the same generation of tech - portable instances. This is a leap over having physical servers, but a mild improvement over each other. Think git vs mercurial - the difference isn't significant enough to move from one to the other. Serverless, for example, would be a leap over the instance model.