In a previous blog, I stated that the most challenging problem people tend to hit when modernizing apps is not so much the modernization of the codebase itself, but rather the huge underlying legacy databases coupling everything together and holding you back from real progress despite all modernization efforts in the application domain.
“Redis is cool tech, the best option when you need a fast cache.”, that summarizes my image of Redis until sometime ago when I truly started to research modern data platforms in connection to application modernization efforts.
VMware made a number of announcements in the Kubernetes space today under the VMware Tanzu portfolio, confirming again this is one of the main strategic pillars.
Last month, Pivotal announced their flagship product - the Cloud Foundry based Pivotal Application Service - is coming to Kubernetes.
I requested access to the private alpha, and was allowed in.
At VMworld US a couple of guys in suits and Sam Ramji VMware, Pivotal, and Google introduced Pivotal Container Service. Exciting stuff! But what does it mean?
