Kanchana's Personal Blog

Since I blogged last time the three hot cloud projects have gotten hotter. Docker (docker.com) They have gone from beta container project to creating full orchestration stack with plenty of money in the bank. Unfortunately creating the full orchestration stack had upset CoreOS folks. Docker Machine, Swarm and Compose comprises of the full orchestration stack. While they are still in pre-beta things are very hot and everyone is talking about Docker and nothing else.  Unfortunately I am going to miss the DockerCon in June this year, however looking forward for the next one. CoreOS (coreos.com) They too had a fantastic run so far, with  US $35m funding from none other than Google Ventures for Tectonic  for making Kubernetes for Enterprises. Since last time they too have created multiple stacks supporting containers. Kubernetes (kubernetes.io) One of the leading container cluster management platform with lots and lots of support from open source community as well as big cloud provide

According Netcraft : DigitalOcean is now the 2nd largest hosting company. As per the recent Netcraft survey on all web facing server counts they reported that DigitalOcean is the 2nd largest hosting company behind AWS. Growth of DigitalOcean is largely due to  Simplicity and Pricing, not to mention the coolness. Last count they have deployed over 5.6m droplets and 450,000 developers.

Cricket world cup is apparently the 3rd largest sport in the world. I am not sure what is the 2nd, however Football (Soccer depending on where you live) is believe to be the number one sport. Anyway for the cricketing world this is it. Warmups started on Sunday, they have all finished now. Some of the minnows managed to surprise big players including 2011 runner-ups Sri Lanka, Pakistan and New Zealand. However Kiwis were quick to recover from 157/7 (rained mach with Zimbabwe) to winning big with South Africa (one of the tournament favorites). It is great to see that minnows working hard and playing their natural game without much pressure. How much can you read from the warm-up games, all I can say is that it is quite possible that test playing nations will not have a walk in the park. Minnows to watch - Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and potentially Scotland.