Most developers think of COBOL as a dead language. Surprisingly, the TIOBE Index for October 2016 lists COBOL as the 24th most popular…

This blog will explain 10 containers anti-patterns that I’ve seen over the past few months: Data or logs in containers – Containers are ideal for stateless applications and are meant to be ephemeral. This means no data or logs should be stored in th...

In my last post "Docker for Automating Honeypots or Malware Sandboxes" some people were worried about Docker not being safe enough to use it as a malware sandbox, at least for now, given for example the article From webshell to docker container escape wit...

My current client has a Rails application that is tightly coupled to Nginx. This sort of coupling is fairly common and used to avoid static files being served by the Rails stack. The files most notable in this respect are the applications assets. The asse... (more…)

The container software company puts a former SAP executive at the helm as it looks to attract more enterprise customers. (more…)