Containers push toward the mayfly server

Abstract

The container revolution represents a large-scale shift in thinking about multitasking systems.

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Index Terms

• Computer systems organization

  • Architectures

    • Distributed architectures

      • Client-server architectures

• Hardware

  • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

    • External storage

• Software and its engineering

  • Software organization and properties

    • Contextual software domains

      • Operating systems

        • Process management

          • Multiprocessing / multiprogramming / multitasking