Linux has become a dominant OS for application back ends and micro-services in the cloud. Usage limits (aka ulimits) are a critical Linux application performance tuning tool. Docker is now the leading ...

With its EC2 Container Service (ECS), Amazon has long offered support for software containers on its AWS cloud computing platform. Today, at its re:Invent developer conference, the company announced a ...

It's surprisingly easy to deploy microservices in the AWS cloud. AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) can pull images from Docker Hub and manage container workload with low-cost AWS Fargate clusters.

Internal dependencies again prove problematic Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region, which last week caused massive disruption to online services, is having another bad day as internal dependencies ...

Serverless AWS Lambda v Amazon ECS on Docker containers. Which of these pay-as-you-go compute services is for you? New Relic's Lee Atchison weighs them up Launched in parallel two and a half years ago ...

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The key difference between Amazon’s Fargate and AWS ECS is that ECS is a container orchestration service while Fargate is a serverless compute engine that runs containers without requiring you to ...