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Some weeks ago, Docker Inc, the company behind Docker Hub, has announced plans to remove the Docker Free Team plan. Teams can move to paid plans or apply to open source sponsored plans. However, many smaller project will not have a budget to switch to a paid plan. Moreover, the path to an open source sponsored plan depends on Docker Inc’s approval. This resulted in a lot of controversy, outcry in the community and ultimately Docker Inc reverting its plans....

In the course Scalable Computing at the RUG university, we build again a scalable application - although this time the focus was more on the scalable of the system than setting up the infrastructure around it. In this article more information about the infrastructure and especially docker swarm is presented. The project can be found on Github. The project is about receiving news articles from an API and then recommending them to the users based on their preferences....

During my university course of Web and Cloud Computing (WACC) at the RUG university, we were given the task to build a distributed and scalable web application that should be run in a cluster. Since docker is quite a nice environment to run single applications in, we decided to actually run the whole application with all services in a docker swarm environment. As the new docker swarm mode was just around the corner, we started using it and really liked in – also because it synchronized over multiple nodes....