Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Whether the goal is ...

Containerization is a revolutionary technology that allows software to be packaged and deployed in a consistent manner across various environments. It resolves challenges such as dependency conflicts ...

Have you ever spent hours setting up a development environment, only to find that your application behaves differently on another machine? Or perhaps you’ve wrestled with dependency conflicts that ...

State and local agencies often deal with legacy monoliths that weren’t built with portability or resiliency in mind. Agencies may operate applications that were written in five different programming ...

In the realm of industrial automation, software deployment across varied systems is a significant challenge due to differences in operating systems, necessary libraries, runtime environments and ...

That’s certainly what virtualization has been for most data centers. The change for some has already come in the form of containerization, a new form of virtualized workload made popular by Docker. In ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...