Taking a long hard look at Google Cloud Platform today, I posit that it is turning the corner from being a niche service to a general purpose enterprise class service.

AWS offers a service which is so useful and inexpensive that it overcomes my aversion towards vendor lock in. That service AWS Key Managment Service (KMS).

It's been a while since I wrote my last docker related post and even longer since I last discussed docker on AWS and a lot has changed since then. For production deployment there are now the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) as well as Google Container Engine (GCE) which can …

It's been a big week for Docker, a relatively new linux container platform. It's only Tuesday and they have announced a production ready release, have held their first conference and revamped their image index into the Docker Hub. Docker has also managed to garner support from Red Hat, Open Stack …