• Challenges in Container Adoption
    https://hackernoon.com/challenges-in-container-adoption-72540b0be7ad?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3

    This article is in continuation to the “Democratization of Container Technologies” piece, in which I discussed #docker’s meteoric rise to fame.In this article I’ll focus on the pain points & challenges that organizations face while trying to implement container based solutions and in the next article I’ll elucidate the best practices that should be followed for adopting #containers with minimum friction and future readiness in mind. These insights are based on my experiences & learnings while working with multiple docker / kubernetes implementations. I am also an active part of the vibrant docker community, which has always stood up & been there to help as and when needed.In order to better understand the challenges I have segregated these into 7 buckets. These buckets are not (...)

    #devops #container-adoption #technology

  • L’#Autriche et le #Danemark présentent leur projet de #centre_de_déportation pour demandeurs d’asile #déboutés

    La semaine dernière, le Danemark et l’Autriche ont présenté conjointement à Vienne un projet pour réformer le système de l’asile au sein de l’Union européenne. Ce projet prévoit d’établir un centre de déportation basé hors de l’UE pour les demandeurs d’asile refoulés.

    La ministre danoise de la migration, #Inge_Støjberg, s’était rendue à Vienne jeudi, où elle a rencontré le ministre de l’Intérieur autrichien, #Herbert_Kickl, membre du parti d’extrême droite autrichien, le FPÖ.

    Støjberg est membre du parti libéral du Danemark (Venstre), et depuis juin 2015, elle occupe le poste de ministre de l’Immigration et de l’Intégration dans le gouvernement du Premier ministre Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

    Un projet qui n’est pas nouveau

    Leur projet vise à fournir un hébergement aux réfugiés déboutés du droit d’asile plus proche de leur pays d’origine, tout en perturbant les activités des activités de trafiquants.

    La création de centres d’accueil hors de l’Europe, des “#plate-formes_de_retour”, pour accueillir les migrants déboutés du droit d’asile en Europe, en attendant leur retour dans leur pays d’origine, est une idée chère à M. Kickl. Elle avait déjà été proposée cet été, mais jusqu’à présent, aucun pays situé hors de l’UE n’a accepté de se porter candidat pour ouvrir de tels centres sur son territoire. L’#Egypte, le #Maroc, la #Tunisie, l’#Algérie, l’#Albanie, et la #Macédoine ont tous décliné l’invitation jusqu’ici.

    Quant à Mme Støjberg, l’année dernière, elle envisageait d’adopter un projet de l’extrême-droite danoise consistant à exiler les demandeurs d’asile déboutés par son pays sur une ou plusieurs des 300 îles inhabitées au large de la côte danoise.

    Un centre d’accueil hors de l’UE pour décourager les migrants d’entreprendre le voyage

    « Nous maintenons que [les réfugiés] devraient réclamer le droit d’asile dans le premier pays où ils arrivent, plutôt qu’on leur permette de voyager dans toute l’Europe », a affirmé Mme Støjberg. « De notre côté, nous nous engageons à augmenter les capacités d’accueil [des pays voisins des zones de conflit pour gérer les arrivées de demandeurs d’asile]. Cela peut signifier des choses telles que les soins de santé, l’éducation, les gardes-frontières, et un système pour gérer les demandeurs d’asile », a-t-elle ajouté.

    Selon la ministre danoise, un centre d’accueil situé hors de l’UE réduirait la tentation des migrants de se rendre en Europe pour y trouver l’asile. « Si vous pouvez voir à quelle vitesse vous pouvez être renvoyé, il n’y a plus de raison de dépenser votre argent et de risquer votre vie pour vous rendre là-bas », a-t-elle dit.

    Selon elle, le projet respecte les conventions de l’Union européenne en matière de droit des réfugiés, et elle a exhorté les autres pays membres à soutenir le projet.

    Des contours encore très flous

    Néanmoins, le site choisi et le calendrier pour l’ouverture de ce centre n’ont pas été révélés. M. Kickl s’est montré optimiste quant aux perspectives d’aboutissement ce projet, mais n’a pas voulu donner plus de détails.

    Reste à savoir si ce projet sera accepté par les collègues européens de Mme Støjberg et M. Kickl. L’idée de la création de centres de déportation hors de l’UE avait déjà été évoquée cet été, notamment lors d’une réunion des ministres de l’Intérieur des pays membres de l’UE à Innsbruck en Autriche au mois de juillet, et n’avait pas été bien accueillie par un certain nombre d’officiels européens.

    https://fr.express.live/2018/10/09/lautriche-et-le-danemark-presentent-leur-projet-de-centre-de-deportatio

    #centre_d'expulsion #expulsions #renvois #asile #migrations #réfugiés #externalisation #UE #EU #île #îles #plate-forme_de_retour

    • Les Danois veulent loger les demandeurs d’asile déboutés sur une #île_déserte

      La ministre danoise de l’Immigration Inger Støjberg (photo) songe à adopter un projet de l’extrême-droite, qui consisterait à exiler les demandeurs d’asile déboutés sur une ou plusieurs des 300 îles inhabitées au large de la côte danoise. À l’heure actuelle, près d’un millier de demandeurs d’asile déboutés au Danemark attendent leur expulsion.

      Støjberg est membre du parti libéral du Danemark (Venstre), et depuis juin 2015, elle occupe le poste de ministre de l’Immigration et de l’Intégration dans le gouvernement du Premier ministre Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

      « Je suis toujours prête à écouter les bonnes idées pour le suivi des demandeurs d’asile », dit-elle dans le journal Berlingske.

      La proposition d’exil des demandeurs d’asile déboutés vient du parti populiste d’extrême droite danois « parti du peuple danois » (Dansk Folkeparti, ou DF). Ce parti soutient la coalition au gouvernement, mais n’en fait pas partie.

      Pourtant, selon Støjberg, le projet est intéressant mais pas immédiatement réalisable. « Il pourrait y avoir des obstacles pratiques et juridiques pour établir un centre de déportation dans un endroit très isolé, et ce sont des choses qu’il faut prendre en compte », a-t-elle déclaré.
      Dansk Folkeparti : loger les demandeurs d’asile déboutés « dans des containers, ou des tentes »
      La plupart des demandeurs d’asile déboutés résident actuellement dans une ancienne #prison d’état dans le centre du pays. Mais les résidents locaux se sont plaints de vols à l’étalage et affirment qu’ils ne se sentent pas en #sécurité en raison de la présence de ces migrants à proximité.

      Selon le DF, le coût ne devrait pas être un obstacle. « Peut-être que nous pouvons trouver une île sur laquelle il y a déjà des constructions, mais sinon, le centre pourrait être établi à partir de n’importe quoi : de #containers dans lesquels les gens pourraient vivre, ou de #tentes ». C’est ce qu’a déclaré le porte-parole du parti, Martin Henriksen.

      Le DF est très attaché à la politique d’asile du gouvernement. L’année dernière, il a suggéré la possibilité que la police impose une #assignation_à_résidence aux demandeurs d’asile mineurs qui se seraient mal comportés.

      Cette proposition faisait suite à la mise en cause que 5 garçons âgés d’entre 14 et 17 ans du centre d’asile de #Tullebølle. Ils avaient été accusés d’#agressions_sexuelles et de #viol commis sur des visiteuses du festival Langeland, sur l’île de Funen.

      https://fr.express.live/2017/12/08/danemark-demandeurs-dasile-deboutes-exil

      #géographie_du_vide #géographie_du_plein

    • Denmark Plans to Isolate Unwanted Migrants on a Small Island

      Denmark plans to house the country’s most unwelcome foreigners in a most unwelcoming place: a tiny, hard-to-reach island that now holds the laboratories, stables and crematory of a center for researching contagious animal diseases.

      As if to make the message clearer, one of the two ferries that serve the island is called the Virus.

      “They are unwanted in Denmark, and they will feel that,” the immigration minister, Inger Stojberg, wrote on Facebook.

      On Friday, the center-right government and the right-wing Danish People’s Party announced an agreement to house as many as 100 people on #Lindholm_Island — foreigners who have been convicted of crimes and rejected asylum seekers who cannot be returned to their home countries.

      The 17-acre island, in an inlet of the Baltic Sea, lies about two miles from the nearest shore, and ferry service is infrequent. Foreigners will be required to report at the island center daily, and face imprisonment if they do not.

      “We’re going to minimize the number of ferry departures as much as at all possible,” Martin Henriksen, a spokesman for the Danish People’s Party on immigration, told TV 2. “We’re going to make it as cumbersome and expensive as possible.”

      The deal allocates about $115 million over four years for immigrant facilities on the island, which are scheduled to open in 2021.

      The finance minister, Kristian Jensen, who led the negotiations, said the island was not a prison, but added that anyone placed there would have to sleep there.

      Louise Holck, deputy executive director of The Danish Institute for Human Rights, said her organization would watch the situation “very closely” for possible violations of Denmark’s international obligations.

      The agreement was reached as part of the annual budget negotiations. Each year, the Danish People’s Party demands restrictions on immigrants or refugees in return for its votes on a budget.

      In Denmark, as in much of Europe, the surge in migration from the Middle East and Africa in 2015 and 2016 prompted a populist, nativist backlash.

      The government has vowed to push immigration law to the limits of international conventions on human rights.

      Legal experts said it was too early to tell whether the Lindholm Island project would cross those boundaries, constituting illegal confinement. They said it resembled an Italian government project that was struck down in 1980 by the European Court of Human Rights.

      The Lindholm Island plan furthers the government’s policy of motivating failed asylum seekers to leave the country by making their lives intolerable.

      Asylum seekers with criminal records are not allowed to work in Denmark. Rejected asylum seekers who cannot be deported are given accommodations, where they cannot prepare their own meals, food and an allowance of about $1.20 per day, which is withheld if they fail to cooperate with the authorities.

      A former immigration minister, Birthe Ronn Hornbech, called the island project “a joke” and a blunder comparable to a soccer player scoring a goal for the opposing team.

      “Nothing will become of this proposal,” she wrote in her newspaper column.

      Many foreigners who have been denied asylum cannot be deported to their home countries for fear of abuse or persecution, or simply because those countries refuse to take them back.

      Hundreds lingering in two deportation centers refuse to leave — a challenge for a government that has promised to get rid of those who have no legal right to remain in Denmark.

      Some have held out for more than a decade despite a steady deterioration in living conditions. An independent study by a former prison director now working for the rights group Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly found conditions in one of the deportation centers to be comparable to those in some prisons, or worse.

      Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said last month that the government’s aim in receiving refugees would no longer be to integrate them, but to host them until they can return to their countries of origin.

      “It’s not easy to ask families to go home, if they’ve actually settled,” he told a meeting of his party. “But it is the morally right thing. We should not make refugees immigrants.”

      This summer, a ban on face coverings was introduced and quickly nicknamed “the burqa ban” as it followed a debate on the Islamic garment seen by some as “un-Danish.” This month, Parliament is expected to pass legislation requiring immigrants who want to obtain citizenship to shake hands with officials as part of the naturalization ceremony — though some Muslims insist that they cannot shake hands with someone of the opposite sex.

      The government contends that hand shakes are “a basic Danish value.”


      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/world/europe/denmark-migrants-island.html
      #Lindholm #mer_Baltique

    • La Danimarca confinerà i migranti su un’isola con gli animali infetti. Così l’Europa muore.

      C’è del marcio in Danimarca. Senza scomodare Amleto e i rimandi shakespeariani, bisogna constatare l’ennesima trovata discriminatoria quanto disumana di un Paese del “civile e ordinato” Nord Europa. Le normative internazionali non consentono l’espulsione di alcuni richiedenti asilo: secondo l’articolo 33 della Convenzione di Ginevra: “Nessuno Stato Contraente espellerà o respingerà, in qualsiasi modo, un rifugiato verso i confini di territori in cui la sua vita o la sua libertà sarebbero minacciate a motivo della sua razza, della sua religione, della sua cittadinanza, della sua appartenenza a un gruppo sociale o delle sue opinioni politiche”. Tali leggi non si possono ignorare, ma evidentemente si possono aggirare. Dunque il governo danese ha pensato bene non di espellere questi immigrati, ma di relegarli su un’isola-prigione.

      Per la precisione si tratta dell’isola di Lindholm, con una superficie di sette ettari. Pressoché deserta, viene usata esclusivamente come luogo per ricerche veterinarie, e vi soggiornano diversi medici che studiano la peste suina e la rabbia canina. Adesso cani e maiali dovranno cedere il posto agli immigrati, che qualcuno, vista la deriva che sta prendendo il pianeta sotto il profilo dei diritti umani, sembra non considerare tanto dissimili.

      L’idea scellerata è della coalizione di governo che comprende i Conservatori e il Dansk Folkeparti. Quest’ultimo, il Partito popolare danese, è noto per la perenne caccia all’immigrato, tanto veemente da far sembrare Matteo Salvini un misto tra Nicola Fratoianni e il Papa. Sull’isola verrà costruito, entro il 2021, un centro di espulsione dove i migranti – un massimo di 125 persone, che hanno compiuto un reato e ai quali è stata rifiutata la richiesta d’asilo – saranno costantemente sorvegliati dalla polizia. Potranno lasciare l’isola solo dopo aver ottenuto permessi speciali, per qualche ora durante la giornata, ma con l’obbligo di tornarvi la sera. E il biglietto del traghetto dovranno pagarselo da soli, a un prezzo inaccessibile per la loro condizione economica. D’altronde, il governo non ha alcuna intenzione di ammorbidire il loro soggiorno, e lo scopo è proprio quello di non permettere loro di lasciare l’isola-prigione. Di tutti i modi escogitati per camuffare una detenzione, questo pare di certo il meno credibile.

      Suonano paradossali anche le precisazioni della sezione danese di Amnesty International, che spiega come la misura riguarderà i soli richiedenti asilo con precedenti penali. Quindi quelli che hanno già scontato una pena in una prigione reale, e che si ritroveranno nuovamente in stato di detenzione, stavolta senza colpe e senza processi, è giusto, secondo un’organizzazione che dovrebbe tutelare i diritti umani, che ne scontino una nuova. Il clima di ostilità nei confronti dei migranti è così accentuato che la misura, palesemente in conflitto con i più basilari principi di tutela delle libertà, ha generato addirittura festeggiamenti sui social. In particolare, è un video a rendere chiaro il sentimento di molti, diffuso in rete dal Dansk Folkeparti: si tratta di un cartone animato dove un uomo di colore, con abiti da musulmano, viene scaricato su un’isola deserta. Il testo di accompagnamento alle immagini recita: “Gli stranieri criminali non hanno motivo di stare in Danimarca. Finché non riusciremo a liberarcene, li trasferiremo sull’isola di Lindholm”. Come cani e maiali, appunto.

      L’isola sarà trasformata in una prigione grazie a un investimento di 100 milioni di dollari che servirà a smantellare i laboratori e le stalle dell’istituto di veterinaria e a costruire la struttura con i dormitori per gli immigrati. Sarà pronta entro il 2021, salvo improbabili ripensamenti o interventi da parte della comunità europea. Inger Støjberg, ministra dell’immigrazione in quota Venstre, partito di destra della coalizione, ha usato Facebook per lanciare un messaggio che suona come un lapidario avvertimento: “Alcuni migranti si accorgeranno di non essere i benvenuti”. In pratica la versione danese di “È finita la pacchia”.

      Già in passato la Danimarca si era distinta per il pugno duro contro i migranti, sino al punto di minare la loro libertà e addirittura privarli dei loro effetti personali. Il Parlamento danese ha infatti approvato nel 2016 una legge tesa a scoraggiare le richieste d’asilo, che conferisce alle autorità il potere di perquisire vestiti e bagagli dei migranti per confiscare beni superiori a 10mila corone (circa 1.350 euro) e usarli per contribuire al loro mantenimento. Eppure la Danimarca, così come gran parte dei paesi del Nord Europa e tutta l’area scandinava, viene dipinta come l’espressione massima del “Paese civile”. Questa definizione a quanto pare si riferisce all’ordine e alla pulizia di una nazione, mentre si chiudono entrambi gli occhi sulle politiche disumane e dal sapore fascista – dove “ordine e pulizia” assumono un altro significato.

      Il governo, intanto, continua a ripetere che quella che verrà realizzata non sarà una prigione, perché non ci saranno vere e proprie celle. Si potrebbe comunque fare un paragone con il regime carcerario, considerando le condizioni nelle quali verseranno gli “ospiti” dell’isola. I danesi hanno probabilmente preso spunto dalla politica sull’immigrazione australiana. L’isola di Nauru, nell’Oceano Pacifico, è il luogo dove il governo “scarica” i richiedenti asilo: per dirla alla Toninelli, i migranti restano a Nauru “per mesi, al massimo anni”. Ci sono intere famiglie, bambini che vengono seguiti dalla polizia anche quando vanno a scuola, mentre gli adulti vengono vessati quotidianamente dalle guardie e vivono in condizioni precarie. Il Guardian Australia ha denunciato abusi su minori e violenze sessuali sulle donne. Ovviamente, in Italia, c’è chi ha lodato il No Way australiano e la detenzione dei migranti a Nauru. È un politico di spicco. Sì, proprio lui.

      Matteo Salvini, durante lo stallo della nave Diciotti, ha dichiarato: “Il mio obiettivo è il No Way australiano. Nessun migrante soccorso in mare mette piede in Australia”. Nel 2015, sulla sua pagina Facebook, si era spinto oltre, parlando proprio di Nauru: “In Australia per me fanno bene! Che dite, affittiamo un’isola anche noi?”. Salvini, invece di gongolare di fronte alle sirene australiane e danesi, dovrebbe semplicemente ripassare la nostra storia. Mandare al confino gli “indesiderati”, cacciandoli su un’isola per allontanarli dalla civiltà, era una prerogativa di Mussolini. Forse il ministro dell’Interno non ha mai sentito parlare di Ventotene o delle isole Tremiti.

      Dopo le leggi speciali del 1926, gli individui ritenuti pericolosi per lo Stato e per l’ordine pubblico venivano spediti in queste isole. È bene sottolineare che, quasi cento anni fa, venivano considerati pericolosi anche gli omosessuali, gli avversari politici, i credenti di fede diversa, come i testimoni di Geova, o i lettori di libri considerati sovversivi. Durante il fascismo vennero emesse 12mila ordinanze dalle commissioni Provinciali, e le isole si riempirono. Una volta giunti in quei luoghi, ai confinati venivano sottratti i documenti personali, non potevano interagire con gli isolani o superare zone di confine sorvegliate da guardie armate. Sulla carta era vietato anche ascoltare la radio o parlare di politica, mentre era permesso l’invio di una sola lettera alla settimana, non più lunga di 24 righe. Da Ventotene passò anche Sandro Pertini, che poi divenne uno dei più amati presidenti della Repubblica. Quando Salvini si lancia in azzardati inviti ad affittare isole, ricordiamoci quanto ci hanno trasmesso i libri di storia.

      È proprio per la memoria storica ancora pulsante, da preservare il più a lungo possibile, che proposte come quella del governo danese dovrebbero mettere in allarme le democrazie europee, che sono sotto attacco anche per questo e non solo per gli attacchi terroristici di individui radicalizzati e riempiti di odio esattamente come i sostenitori di simili politiche.

      Nessun uomo è un’isola, scriveva il poeta John Donne. Rivisitando i suoi versi, auspichiamo “nessun uomo su un’isola”, se viene intesa come prigionia e azzeramento dei diritti fondamentali dell’uomo. Che sia in Danimarca, nel profondo Sud dell’Oceania o in qualche nostalgia malsana di un politico nostrano che strizza troppo spesso l’occhio a un passato nero che non dovrebbe ripetersi.

      https://thevision.com/politica/danimarca-migranti-isolamento

  • #Transport_maritime : une #mondialisation conteneurisée qui rime encore avec #pollution

    La pollution des océans et de notre air est aussi interrogée par le développement du trafic maritime et de géants des mers. Cette semaine, la France a inauguré un #porte-conteneur de 400 mètres de long, alors que le secteur a tardé jusqu’au printemps dernier pour signer un accord en faveur du climat.


    https://www.franceculture.fr/ecologie-et-environnement/transport-maritime-une-mondialisation-conteneurisee-qui-rime-encore-av
    #containeurs #containers

    ping @simplicissimus @reka

    • L’OMI avait fixé des limites pour le taux de soufre des carburants en 2008 avec entrée en vigueur en 2020. Il semble que les armateurs n’ont pas vraiment eu le temps de s’y adapter…

      Shipping’s 2020 Low Sulphur Fuel Rules Explained – gCaptain
      https://gcaptain.com/shippings-2020-low-sulphur-fuel-rules-explained
      article de mai 2018

      New rules coming into force from 2020 to curb pollution produced by the world’s ships are worrying everyone from OPEC oil producers to bunker fuel sellers and shipping companies.

      The regulations will slash emissions of sulphur, which is blamed for causing respiratory diseases and is a component of acid rain that damages vegetation and wildlife.

      But the energy and shipping industries are ill-prepared, say analysts, with refiners likely to struggle to meet higher demand for cleaner fuel and few ships fitted with equipment to reduce sulphur emissions.

      This raises the risk of a chaotic shift when the new rules are implemented, alongside more volatility in the oil market.

      The reality is that the industry has already passed the date beyond the smooth transition,” Neil Atkinson, head of the oil industry and market division at the International Energy Agency (IEA), said in April.

      Toujours pour les produits sulfurés, l’équipement en scrubbers (absorbeurs-épurateurs) autre exigence de l’OMI progresse tout doucement ; le marché commencerait à se réveiller.

      IMO 2020 : How Many Ships Have Scrubbers ? - Ship & Bunker
      https://shipandbunker.com/news/world/811942-imo-2020-how-many-ships-have-scrubbers


      Image Credit : EGCSA

      After months of downbeat assessment for the scrubber market, in recent weeks orders are reported to have surged and the corresponding positive headlines have been difficult to miss.

      So how many vessels actually have scrubbers? According to a recent survey of its membership by the Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Association (EGCSA), as of May 31, 2018 there were 983 vessels with scrubber systems installed or on order, translating into 1,561 individual scrubber towers.

      This is notably higher than the 817 vessels reported by DNV GL last month, but still a far cry from the 3,800 predicted in official estimates by IMO’s fuel availability study.

      Enfin, à côté, on annonce ponctuellement l’arrivée de navires propulsés au GNL, censé être moins polluant.

      http://www.golng.eu/files/Main/20180417/2.%20Ole%20Vidar%20Nilsen%20-%20DNV%20GL.pdf

      There are currently [Updated 1 April 2018] 247 confirmed LNG fuelled ships, and 110 additional LNG ready ships
      […]
      (Scrubber retrofit is the “main competitor” to LNG)

  • CMA-CGM. Le nouveau porte-conteneurs inauguré au Havre
    https://www.ouest-france.fr/normandie/le-havre-76600/cma-cgm-le-nouveau-porte-conteneurs-inaugure-au-havre-5928275

    Le porte-conteneurs français Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, le plus grand du genre au monde, sera inauguré jeudi 6 septembre 2018, au Havre.

    Plus long que quatre terrains de football et plus gros que l’Empire State Building ou la Tour Eiffel ? C’est le CMA CGM Antoine Saint-Exupéry. Long de 400 mètres pour 59 mètres de large, il peut embarquer 20 600 conteneurs à bord, soit une chaîne de conteneurs de 123 kilomètres.

    Le jeudi 6 septembre 2018, il sera officiellement inauguré, au terminal de France au Havre, par Bruno Le Maire, ministre de l’Économie et des Finances et Rodolphe Saadé, PDG du groupe CMA-CGM, annonce le groupe sur son site Internet.

    #container #transport_maritime

  • One-shot #containers with #serverless
    https://hackernoon.com/one-shot-containers-with-serverless-10794f68fc16?source=rss----3a8144eab

    Have you ever had short lived containers like the following use cases:Batch and ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) Jobs.Database backups and replication.Machine Learning algorithms for generation of learning and training models.Integration & Sanity tests.Web scrapers & crawlers.And you were wondering how you can deploy your container periodically or in response to an event ? The answer is by using Lambda itself, the idea is by making a Lambda function trigger a deployment of your container from the build server. The following figure illustrates how this process can be implemented:I have wrote a simple application in Go to simulate a short time process using sleep method:https://medium.com/media/fae0d07f0c64f6c8ce8ae6b2ab5d3577/hrefAs Go is a complied language, I have used Docker (...)

    #aws #one-shot-containers #serverless-containers

  • Should you use a #monolith, #containers or #serverless ?
    https://hackernoon.com/should-you-use-a-monolith-containers-or-serverless-a5e23a44e73f?source=r

    Monolith. Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/stonehenge-architecture-history-1590047/It’s been a long time since my last Article in January. I apologise for the delay, it’s difficult to find time to just sit down and translate my thoughts into insightful, digestible content. I have so much I want to write about but sometimes there’s so much that I don’t exactly know where to start.IntroductionThe purpose of this post is intended to help you decide whether you should use monoliths, containers or serverless architectures. Each have their own merits and faults and we’ll discuss each of them in detail throughout the article. The decision should ultimately be made based on the stage of the project you are at and your familiarity with these architectures. A clean architecture will always be better (...)

    #microservices #docker

  • A Practical #introduction to #docker Compose
    https://hackernoon.com/practical-introduction-to-docker-compose-d34e79c4c2b6?source=rss----3a81

    TL;DRDocker #containers opened a world of possibilities for the tech community, hassles in setting up new software were decreased unlike old times when a mess was to be sorted by a grievous format, it reduced the time to set up and use new software which eventually played a big part for techies to learn new things, roll it out in a container and scrap it when done. Things became easy, and the best thing its open source anyone and everyone can use it, comes with a little learning curve though.Out of the myriad possibilities was the possibility of implementing complex technology stacks for our applications, which previously would have been the domain of experts. Today with the help of containers software engineers with sound understanding of the underlying systems can implement a complex (...)

    #docker-compose #containerization

  • Using Ractive.js and #html5 Fetch API to consume #rest API
    https://hackernoon.com/using-ractive-js-and-html5-fetch-api-to-consume-rest-api-f03c47904202?so

    credit: https://burst.shopify.com/photos/developer-reviewing-javascriptRecently I was given a task to consume an open rest based API from Open Weather using Ractive.js and HTML5’s Fetch APIThe sample app here takes the city name as input and shows the corresponding weather information below it.Get the OpenWeather API keys for FREE!!!In order to get the JSON data from OpenWeather’s REST API, the first thing we need to do is get their free API key. The API can be called by simply passing in this app id as query parameter. That’s it!Setting the UI containerCreate an HTML5 element to be used as the front of the app. In our case, it’s div#container.Implement responsiveness using BootstrapJust for implementing the responsiveness, we’ve included the Bootstrap reference. The classes .row .col-md-6 (...)

    #ractivejs #es6 #javascript

  • Revamping a #legacy backend #2
    https://hackernoon.com/revamping-a-legacy-backend-2-56d6c98df1f3?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

    Photograph by Gerald David NordleyIn my last article I shared our approach at Sense Health to use Infrastructure as Code for creating and provisioning servers. While this gives us a solid base to introduce new clusters into our stack and increases reliability of our servers to run different services and databases, we are still missing a solution to deploy our software.To give you a scope of the problem, we have a micro-services driven architecture with APIs developed over the last several years in PHP, Python and Go. These services were deployed manually onto 1 server that had been running for years and we had only 1 senior engineer who had enough knowledge to troubleshoot any issues that occurred when deploying.To be able to confidently move our entire code-base into a new environment (...)

    #containers #deployment #rancher #docker

  • Managing fleet on #kubernetes
    https://hackernoon.com/managing-fleet-on-kubernetes-8cac6483b64?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

    Couple of months ago, we were tackling challenges with scalability of system and were in pursuit of finding right orchestration tools which can help in scaling systems quickly. This draft is outline of things we have tried and learned along the way, most of things might sound familiar to you. A Quick glance of things we came across while building fleets on Kubernetes.We started exploring popular project managed by Google for orchestration management, Kubernetes for DevOps. Starting with two weeks of learning curves, we get our working staging system in kubes (kubernetes in short) and did small working setup to visualize the power of this orchestration framework.MicroservicesMicroservice architectures have been trending because its architectural style aims to tackle the problems of (...)

    #container-orchestration #docker #google-cloud-platform #google-container-engine

  • Another reason why your #docker #containers may be slow
    https://hackernoon.com/another-reason-why-your-docker-containers-may-be-slow-d37207dec27f?sourc

    In my last blog post I was talking about Kubernetes and how ThoughtSpot uses it for its dev infrastructure needs. Today I’d like to follow up on that with a rather short but interesting #debugging story that happened recently. It re-iterates on the fact that containerization != virtualization and demonstrates how containerized processes can compete for resources even if all cgroup limits are set to reasonable values, and there’s plenty of computing power available on the host machine.So, we were using our internal Kubernetes cluster to run a bunch of CI/CD and dev-related workflows, and everything was going great except one thing: when launching Dockerized copies of our product, we saw a much much worse #performance than we expected. Each of our containers had generous CPU and memory limits (...)

    #linux

  • Kriselnde #Container-Schifffahrt - Leichte Zuversicht unter Reedereien
    http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/kriselnde-container-schifffahrt-leichte-zuversicht-unter.766.de.html
    http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/media/thumbs/e/e7cb9caa4e60e6e479bcb919507ac73dv1_max_755x425_b3535db83dc50e27c1bb1

    Kriselnde Container-SchifffahrtLeichte Zuversicht unter Reedereien

    Die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat die Schiffahrtsbranche getroffen wie kaum eine andere. Neun der 20 großen deutschen Reedereien sind inzwischen pleite. Jetzt gibt es erste Anzeichen auf ein moderates Wachstum. Von der anstehenden Elbvertiefung erhoffen sie sich einen weiteren Schub.

    #transport_maritime

  • Container shipping : More mergers, better mergers | McKinsey & Company
    https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/travel-transport-and-logistics/our-insights/container-shipping-more-mergers-better-mergers
    https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Travel+Transport%20and%20Logistics/Our%20Insights/Container%20shipping%20More%20mergers%20better%20mergers/Container-shipping_1536x1536_100.ashx

    A few precepts can help industry players better manage mergers and the integration process.

    The container shipping industry is expected to continue to struggle with overcapacity and an inability to deliver value to shareholders. As container lines search for successful paths forward, they need to first determine what their strategy and potential role in the continuing industry consolidation will be. While mergers will continue, they do not need to be feared, just managed—and the guidelines in this article provide a starting point.

    #transport #container #mer #transport_maritime

  • How a Steel Box Changed the World: A Brief History of Shipping
    http://www.wsj.com/video/series/a-brief-history-of/how-a-steel-box-changed-the-world-a-brief-history-of-shipping/CF460889-9984-483E-AF44-324330B89ECA

    How a Steel Box Changed the World: A Brief History of Shipping
    A simple idea transformed the way goods are shipped around the world. This video explains how

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    By Thomas Di Fonzo and Liliana Llamas Costas Paris
    Jan. 24, 2018 11:25 am

    As the container shipping industry continues to boom, companies are adopting new technologies to move cargo faster and shifting to crewless ships. But it’s not all been smooth sailing and the future will see fewer players stay above water.

    #transport #transport_maritime #container #commerce_mondial

  • La magie de LXD
    https://bioinfo-fr.net/la-magie-de-lxd

    #LXC est un système de virtualisation comme Docker qui contrairement à une machine virtuelle, simule l’environnement d’exécution au lieu d’une machine. L’avantage c’est que c’est vraiment light ! Vous pouvez lancer des milliers de #containers sans consommer toutes vos ressources.
    Le souci avec LXC, c’est qu’il n’est pas aussi facile à installer et manipuler que Docker. Suite à ça, les développeurs de Canonical ont décidé de faire encore plus simple en créant une surcouche appelée #LXD. Il s’agit d’un daemon exposant une API REST qui permet de contrôler LXC. Et le client de cette API REST est la commande lxc.

    Liens complémentaires pour débuter :
    https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/lxd.html
    https://linuxcontainers.org/fr/lxd/getting-started-cli

    Avant j’utilisais #virtualbox pour mon monter un serveur local de test rapidement. Je viens de tester LXC pour installer Lufi afin de travailler sur le thème qu’on utiliser sur http://drop.infini.fr et je dois reconnaître que c’est vraiment simple et rapide.

  • Les Cafés Géo » Océans, #conteneurisation, #mondialisation
    http://cafe-geo.net/oceans-conteneurisation-mondialisation

    Par un excellent spécialiste de la question.

    Antoine Frémont est agrégé de géographie et directeur de recherche à l’IFSTTAR (Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de l’aménagement et des réseaux). Il est l’auteur de l’ouvrage « Le monde en boîtes. Conteneurisation et mondialisation » Presses de l’INRETS, 2007. Il est également l’auteur avec Anne Frémont-Vanacore du dossier « Géographie des espaces maritimes » documentation photographique, mars/avril 2015. Il a dirigé avec Laetitia Dablanc l’ouvrage « La métropole logistique » Armand Colin, 2015.

    « Océans, conteneurisation, mondialisation », les trois termes de l’intitulé du café géographique de ce soir revient à poser l’hypothèse que la mondialisation passe par la mer. C’est ce que propose de nous démontrer Antoine Frémont qui part d’un constat : alors qu’aujourd’hui 10 milliards de tonnes de marchandises empruntent la voie maritime, en 1950 le total s’élevait à 550 millions de tonnes ! Si le transport maritime a connu plusieurs révolutions, parmi les plus récentes, celle qui date des années 1960, et certainement la plus marquante, est celle de la conteneurisation.

    1 – La conteneurisation, une révolution

    11 – Une idée simple…

    L’américain Malcolm MacLean est considéré comme l’inventeur de la conteneurisation, dans la seconde moitié des années 1950. Son idée consiste à acheminer les marchandises dans des boîtes ou « containers » standards (vingt pieds ou quarante pieds) à forte capacité où l’on peut mettre tout ce que l’on veut (produits manufacturés vendus dans les grandes surfaces de distribution). Certains containers sont réfrigérés pour le transport des produits alimentaires ou congelés, d’autres sont des containers-citernes pour les vracs liquides.

    #container #transport #transport_maritime #mer

  • Le port d’Anvers et le village fantôme

    Containérisation du monde et déplacements de vies

    Par Andrea Bottalico

    Traduction l’italien par Claire Feasson

    Article original : « Anversa, il villaggio fantasma e il porto più efficiente del mondo », Napoli Monitor, 13 septembre 2017.

    http://jefklak.org/?p=4629

    Les marchandises s’en viennent, la vie s’en va. À l’extrême nord de la Belgique, sur les rives de l’Escaut, Anvers est aujourd’hui le deuxième port d’Europe, derrière Rotterdam, et la première place boursière mondiale. Comme au Havre en France, la zone portuaire veut s’étendre encore et toujours, et augmenter ainsi le flux de containers arrivés du monde entier. Mais ces monstres-boîtes, qui acheminent nos biens de consommation, mangent peu à peu les gens alentour. Entre les grues du port et une centrale nucléaire, le petit bled de Doel prend des airs de ville fantôme. Malgré une lutte digne et énergique des habitant.es, la population est passée d’un millier dans les années 1990 à une dizaine aujourd’hui.

  • Digitization Won’t Provide the Predicted Revolution in Container Shipping, Says Alphaliner – gCaptain
    http://gcaptain.com/digitization-wont-provide-the-predicted-revolution-in-container-shipping-s

    Predictions that the current crop of disruptive digital start-ups will revolutionize container shipping has been disputed by a leading liner analyst.

    Alphaliner this week suggested that, despite the considerable hype and hundreds of millions of dollars raised by freight and logistics start-ups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, evidence suggests that the container shipping industry is peculiarly resistant to being radically transformed.

    Since the first generation of shipping portals was launched in 2000, the container shipping market has not seen any transformative change in the way business is conducted,” it said.

    The three main multi-carrier shipping platforms, INTTRA, GT Nexus and CargoSmart, provide only basic software service solutions to handle cargo bookings, shipping instructions, track and trace and exception management and reporting.

    It added that attempts by carriers to create freight e-commerce platforms and marketplaces had “flopped”, while the partnership between Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba with a number of carriers since last year “have generated very little volumes, despite the initial fanfare”. And a logistics cooperation with China Shipping was launched in 2014, but was “silent within its first year”.

    Alphaliner further argued that the award of an NVOCC license to Amazon to book freight on the China-US transpacific route triggered “a stream of speculations on how Amazon could potentially revolutionize the shipping industry”.

    But, it said: “More than a year after Amazon’s entry, its actual shipping volumes remain very small and the company has failed to produce any disruptive breakthroughs in the shipping market.

    However, investors and tech analysts alike have put their money behind a slew of projects, while bankers have eagerly arranged huge loans for would-be acquirers to consolidate their position in the sector.

    #disruption vs #hype

    #transport_maritime #containers

  • #CMA_CGM Preparing Order for 22,000 TEU Containerships -Reports – gCaptain
    http://gcaptain.com/cma-cgm-readying-order-for-22000-teu-containerships-reports
    Photo : CMA CGM
    (le CMA CGM Rodolphe, seulement 11000 TEU)

    CMA CGM is rumored to be on verge of placing a massive order for the construction of up to nine 22,000 TEU containerships, which if built would be the largest in the world.

    According to several reports, South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries is competing with a shipyard in China for the contract to build the ships. Reports say the order, which could finalized in the new few weeks, will consist of six 22,000 TEU newbuildings with options for three additional vessels.

    CMA CGM is not responding to request for comments about the rumors, but it is also not denying them.

    #22000_TEU #conteneurs #ContainerShip

    • Et donc, logiquement, on voit réapparaître les problèmes d’#assurabilité (outre la surcapacité actuelle…)

      Insurers grow #twitchy as containerships get bigger and cargo more valuable - The Loadstar
      https://theloadstar.co.uk/insurers-grow-twitchy-containerships-get-bigger-cargo-valuable

      Notwithstanding liner industry concerns that the sector is already overtonnaged, the prospect of yet more behemoths being put into service has reignited the concerns of insurers.

      In a LinkedIn post today, Michael Hauer, head of marine reinsurance for the Singapore branch of Munich RE, says the insurance industry needs to try to understand the likely exposure when – not if – a ULCV gets into trouble.

      Indeed, when the 2008-built 8,110 teu MOL Comfort broke its back off the coast of Yemen in 2008, resulting in a total loss of the ship and 4,380 containers, the insured cargo loss was reported at some $300m.

      Marine insurers typically calculate their average exposure per box at $50,000-$100,000, but Mr Hauer said amounts recorded for single containers lost from the MOL Comfort were considerably higher.

      Mr Hauer said the growth in size of containerships, more than double in the last decade or so, also means that historical large loss values “must be called into question”.

      cf. #MOL_Comfort

  • Des policiers du G20 renvoyés chez eux après une soirée d’excès avec alcool et sexe RTBF - Belga - 27 Juin 2017

    Plus de 220 policiers berlinois, chargés d’assurer la sécurité lors du sommet du G20 de Hambourg début juillet, ont été renvoyés chez eux après une soirée de tous les excès avec alcool, sexe en public et danse sur les tables.

    Selon des informations données mardi par la police de Hambourg, ces fonctionnaires ont été priés de rentrer à Berlin en raison « d’un comportement inapproprié (...) et inacceptable » à un peu plus d’une semaine du sommet du G20 qui se tient les 7 et 8 juillet sous haute sécurité.

    En cause : une « fête » dans le village de containers dans lequel ces policiers, appelés en renfort dans la cadre des préparatifs de ce sommet depuis dimanche, sont provisoirement hébergés.


    Selon plusieurs journaux dont Bild, un policier et une policière ont eu des relations sexuelles en public tandis qu’une autre a dansé sur les tables, vêtue seulement d’un peignoir et avec son arme de service en main.

    Certains se sont aussi mis à uriner contre une barrière, chacun attendant en rang son tour pour se soulager, détaillent les médias allemands.

    Selon la radio publique berlinoise rbb, qui s’appuie sur des conversations sur internet de policiers, une bagarre a aussi éclaté entre des policiers « fêtards » de Berlin et leurs collègues de Wuppertal, qui devaient prendre leur service à 3h30.

    Bild publie notamment une photo où l’on voit des policiers en civil levant leurs verres tandis que d’autres fument la chicha dans une ambiance manifestement très joyeuse.

    Les policiers ont justifié leur excès par le fait qu’ils n’avaient « pas de télévision, ni de possibilités de divertissement » dans ce village de containers, poursuit Bild.

    La police de Berlin a confirmé que certains de ses hommes s’étaient livrés à des excès. « C’est juste gênant de voir comment les collègues se sont comportés » , a indiqué un porte-parole de la police berlinoise, Thomas Neuendorf, à l’agence dpa.

    Plus de 15 000 policiers venus de toute l’Allemagne sont mobilisés pour le G20 placé sous haute surveillance en raison des menaces terroristes en Europe et des manifestations d’opposants attendues en marge de la réunion

    #G20 #Orgie #Condition_de_ Travail #allemagne #police #containers

  • Officials Investigating ’Potential Threat’ Aboard Maersk Containership in Port of Charleston,Terminal Evacuated – gCaptain
    http://gcaptain.com/potential-threat-aboard-maersk-memphis-port-of-charleston

    Officials are investigating a ‘potential threat’ aboard a U.S.-flagged Maersk Line containership at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina.

    The Coast Guard said at approximately 8 p.m. Wednesday authorities were made aware of a potential threat in a container aboard the vessel Maersk Memphis in the Port of Charleston.

    The Maersk Memphis is moored at Charleston’s Wando terminal, which has been evacuated while law enforcement units from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies investigate the threat.

    A 1 nautical mile safety zone has been established around the vessel while law enforcement authorities investigate the threat.

    Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are currently investigating the type of the potential threat,” the Coast Guard said on Twitter.

    Coast Guard officials described the threat as a possible “dirty bomb”, according to Reuters and other media outlets. A #dirty_bomb is a combination of radioactive and conventional explosives. 

    An unified command has been established to oversee the coordinated response, which the Coast Guard described as ‘active and ongoing’ as of 2 a.m. ET. 

    According to Maersk Lines website Maersk Memphis last called the port of Newark on June 12 after sailing from Middle East via the Suez Canal and Algeciras.