Docker is all the rage these days, but one doesn't hear about running Solr on Docker very much. Last month, we gave a talk on the topic of running containerized Solr at the Lucene Revolution conference in Boston, the biggest open source conference dedicat...

Like everyone these days, DevOps teams and developers are deluged with data. Making sense of it all is increasingly hard, even with the pretty analytics tools we now have available. Some of the data is irrelevant to your task, some of it is data you’re ...

Can you imagine that you will never have to define dependencies and customize configurations manually on your continuous integration server? Do you believe that every step of your build can be really isolated and work exclusively in Docker containers? And... (more…)

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is ready for prime time. You no longer need a VM to run graphical Linux apps on Windows. (more…)

Two years ago I was one of the Docker skeptics. Not from a technology standpoint—I understand and fully believe in full-stack application development and deployments. But from an adoption perspective, I feared that the early developer uptick would lead to... (more…)