Re:DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
by laumars on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:58PM
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> This feels perhaps a bit too dismissive?
Im just posting my observations having managed on prem and data centres over the last couple of decades.
> Containers are pretty great, however I wouldn't say that they're always exclusive to virtualization
I literally said it’s not a like for like replacement. Plenty of SaaS offerings run virtualisation for security with containers on top. But in those instances the VMs aren’t used for distributed computing; they’re used as a security layer. It’s the containers that perform the distributed aspects.
Im just posting my observations having managed on prem and data centres over the last couple of decades.
> Containers are pretty great, however I wouldn't say that they're always exclusive to virtualization
I literally said it’s not a like for like replacement. Plenty of SaaS offerings run virtualisation for security with containers on top. But in those instances the VMs aren’t used for distributed computing; they’re used as a security layer. It’s the containers that perform the distributed aspects.