A high-level introduction to Docker containers for experienced engineers
By Akbar S. Ahmed / In Docker / On April 13, 2016
The following is a high-level introduction of Docker containers for experienced engineers. It is assumed that you have a conceptual understanding of virtualization (both system-level and OS-level), environments and other basic Linux concepts. The goal of this document is provide a quick, practical overview of containers so that you can make informed choices when architecting your container strategy. The current generation of container technologies trace their recent linage to “process containers” which were invented in 2006 by Google engineers Paul Manage and Rohit Seth.
A modern, modular NoSQL distributed database
By Akbar S. Ahmed / In DynomiteDB / On February 7, 2016
DynomiteDB is a high performance, linearly scalable, highly available (HA) and distributed database. Dynomite’s clustering has a Dynamo-inspired shared nothing architecture with no single point of failure (SPOF). High speed storage is provided by Redis while the clustering layer allows Redis to span 10s, 100s or 1000s of servers.
