Lucas Carlson

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Lucas Carlson founded AppFog, a PaaS company that leveraged Cloud Foundry and was acquired by CenturyLink. Lucas has been a professional developer for 20 years and specializes in Ruby on Rails development. Lucas has authored Programming for PaaS and the Ruby Cookbook and has written half a dozen libraries in various programming languages and contributed to many others, including Rails and RedCloth. He maintains a personal website at lucascarlson.net.

The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Lucas Carlson and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications, Inc., its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.

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How devops changes monitoring

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The story of Linux containers has many points of view. Vendors see it one way, but are they really addressing customers needs?

Are containers ready for prime time yet?

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Four ways Docker fundamentally changes application development

How Docker containers streamline development and deployment, encourage best practices, and enable a new breed of microservices based applications.

4 ways Docker fundamentally changes application development

How Docker containers streamline development and deployment, encourage best practices, and enable a new breed of micro-services based applications

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