First developed to make applications easier to deploy, manage and scale, container technologies nonetheless have seen limited use in big data systems due to earlier struggles managing application state and data. But all that is beginning to change, promising more agility and flexibility for these systems.

Containers can be viewed as part of a continuum of infrastructure simplification situated between traditional monolithic infrastructure and serverless functions, said John Gray, CTO at Infiniti Consulting, an InterVision company. Compared to monolithic infrastructure deployments, serverless infrastructure could provide more agility and reduce costs in the short run, while greatly easing management tasks in the long run. Read More

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