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Containerization directly reduces costs and the "metric that matters" for cloud hosts, tenants-per-server. the flip side of this coin is that it reduces the co
by dantiberian 12y ago
Containerization directly reduces costs and the "metric that matters" for cloud hosts, tenants-per-server.
the flip side of this coin is that it reduces the cost for every cloud provider. In essence containers moves the locus of competition further up the stack, commoditising the layers below. I'll bet there were a lot of people who were upset when shipping containers were standardised too.
- mrbill 12y agoI'll bet there were a lot of people who were upset when shipping containers were standardised too. There's a GREAT book on the subject: "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" http://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691136408 http://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy...