Docker – Ready for Prime time or not?

Docker – Ready for Prime time or not? Docker – ready for prime time or not? It’s a question that has been asked (and answered) hundreds if not thousands of times already. So – rather than repeat that long and somewhat tired conversation I want to focus on one piece of...

Big Data Applications – anyone out there?

Big Data Applications – anyone out there? If you read my post last week we discussed how Big Data and Hadoop is no longer running on commodity hardware. This is a good thing, provided you are prepared to accept the higher Hardware cost, because it lays the...