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Introduction to Containerization Using Docker
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Wei-Meng explains how Docker Engine replaces virtual machines with containers to host the apps and libraries you need, completely independent of which OS you’re using. Docker is written to run natively on the Linux platform. If you're using Windows or Mac OS, Docker creates a Linux virtual machine, which itself hosts the containers.
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Azure Skyline: Remote App—Hosting Desktop Apps in Azure
In this next installment of his exploration of Microsoft Azure, Mike explores the benefits of remote desktop apps.
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LINQ to Relational Data: Who’s Who?
With the combined launch of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is introducing five implementations of .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ).Of these five implementations, two specifically target access to relational databases: LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities.
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Scaling Web Applications with Windows 2000 Advanced Server's Network Load Balancing
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With ever-larger Web applications being built to service very large numbers of simultaneous users pounding away at Web sites, the issue of scaling applications beyond a single machine is important for Web application developers and network administrators.While hardware capabilities seem to be increasing to the point that high-powered single machines can handle tremendous loads, there will always be those apps that push beyond a single machine. In addition, for many administrators and IT planners, it's often not good enough to say that a server can handle x number of users. They want redundancy, backup and overflow support, so a Web server or hardware failure or an unexpected surge of visitors doesn't cripple the corporate Web site. In this article, Rick discusses the issues of scalability and how load balancing services can help provide redundancy and extra horsepower to large Web sites.