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 ...

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 ...

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.

At the re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas today, AWS announced two new instance types designed for specific kinds of applications. The first is a generalized EC2 instance designed for ...