Containers

A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding the Magic of DockerContainerized city — Image generated by Stable DiffusionDocker has taken the world by storm, and for a good reason. Lightweight, portable containers make it easy to package and deploy applications, ensuring they run consistently and reliably on any platform.But what exactly are Docker containers, and how do they work under the hood? A Google search will give you hundreds of articles about how containers compare to Virtual Machines (VMs), but this does not answer the…

Photo: Bruce Bennett (Getty Images)This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.Plastic packaging waste from the online retail giant Amazon ballooned to 709 million pounds globally in 2021 — equivalent to the weight of some 70,000 killer whales — according to a new report published Thursday by the nonprofit Oceana. That’s an 18 percent increase over Oceana’s estimate of Amazon’s plastic packaging for 2020, indicating a growing problem that environmental advocates — and even…

What is STL in C++?The Standard Template Library (STL) is a set of C++ template classes to provide common programming data structures and functions. It is a library of container classes, algorithms, functions and iterators. It is a generalized library and so, its components are parameterized. Working knowledge of template classes is a prerequisite for working with STL. STL has 4 components:AlgorithmsContainersFunctionsIteratorsContainers: Containers are Objects that handle the collection of other objects or elements…

Corporate giants vowed change, but are falling short on their promises. Some of the biggest companies on Earth are all but certain to shoot past agreed upon targets to make plastic packaging more sustainable by 2025, according to a report published Wednesday.Beginning in 2018, hundreds of the world’s largest brands signed on to the Global Commitment, an initiative for tackling the problem of plastic pollution created by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment Programme. Companies like PepsiCo, Coca-Cola,…

Photo: KAREN BLEIER / AFP (Getty Images)This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.No plastic is truly recyclable — not even the water bottles and milk jugs that people usually toss into their blue bins.According to a new report released on Monday by Greenpeace USA, no plastic product meets a common industry standard for recyclability, even though they bear the familiar “chasing arrows” recycling symbol. The report says industry-backed recycling labels on yogurt cups,…

ZinetroN/ShutterstockWe use containers all the time, but we're not ready to give up on Virtual Machines (VM) yet. Both have their uses. But, what if we could use the flexibility and ease of deployment of containers with the security and manageability of VMs?  That's the idea behind the OpenInfra Foundation's Kata Containers, and it's been fine-tuned in the latest release, Kata Containers 3.0.0.It started with the marriage of two different programs. The first was the Hyper.sh container platform. This enabled…

Becton, Dickinson & Co. has issued a voluntary recall of special containers that hospitals use to sterilize surgical instruments, after finding some of the containers may have had breaches that could lead to infections in patients.The BD recall applies to 17 versions of the reusable metal containers, sold under the Genesis Sterrad brand name, which store surgical tools such as scissors and forceps during and after sterilization. In a letter to customers this week, BD said the containers…

Ocean carriers are canceling dozens of sailings on the world’s busiest routes during what is normally their peak season, the latest sign of the economic whiplash hitting companies as inflation weighs on global trade and consumer spending.The October cancellations are a sharp reversal from just a few months ago, when scarce shipping space pushed freight rates higher and carriers’ profits to record levels. Last October, companies like Walmart Inc. and Home Depot Inc.…

A worker in Accra sorts plastic for recycling.Photo: Cristina Aldehuela/AFP (Getty Images)When a huge plastic producer like Coca-Cola says it’s working to solve the plastic crisis, what does that really look like? An investigation published Friday by Bloomberg documents how one initiative in Ghana was used by some of the world’s biggest plastic producers to battle against threats of plastic bans, while failing to deliver on some of its key promises.Plastic pollution is a deadly problem in Ghana, which creates more than 1…

A Project with SageMaker Studio Lab and DockerPhoto by Ian Taylor on UnsplashThe objective of this post is to run a data science workflow on AWS and then ship it using Docker, thus creating an end-to-end machine learning task.Furthermore, I will be focusing more on the “how” to dockerize a data science project, more so than “why this project is cool”. That being said, there are many benefits for using Docker:PortabilityPerformanceAgilityIsolationScalabilityOn the other hand, AWS SageMaker Studio Lab provides the power of…