great writeup on scaling containers
From their newsletter: Celebrating 500k dev milestone with a global hackathon and a $35,000 prize!
PS: In the past Koding suffered from a few stability issues and it pained us. Now, we're powered by AWS and every VM you get is an AWS VM. No more LXC's, no hacks and no dockerization which means no more downtime. Just this month we have turned on more than a 100,000 VMs – yes you read that right… a 100,000 VMs with 99.9% uptime. If you have not done it yet, come give us another try… we guarantee that you will like it very much.
Why did Koding move away from containers and Docker to virtual machines?
Sami Abualsamid
President and Chief Geek at StratEx
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sami Abualsamid earned three graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds several patents and is published over sixty times in scientific journals, conferences, industry publications and book chapters. He is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Technology and was awarded the Advanced Researcher distinction by the US government for his research in super computing and real-time systems. Over the period of two decades Sami has led the development of several enterprise class scalable applications that are currently in use by many Fortune 500 companies and thousands of users across the country. Sami routinely contributes to the Open Source Community and the hundreds of open source projects he worked on are in use all over the globe. Sami can be reached at: @born2code.
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