‘THE CONTAINERIZATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS IN THE AGE OF THE CLOUD WILL SAVE MORE CO2 EMISSIONS THAN ELECTRIC CARS.’ (source infra)
Cloud Computing Could Do More to Save the Planet Than Electric Cars | Enterprise | WIRED: "... Much like Pantheon, Google uses containers to run its own online services–from Search and Gmail to Google Maps–and according to the company, this has probably helped save it the cost of building an entire data center. Now, in an effort to bring this technology to others, it has already embraced containers on its cloud services–Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine–though it uses a hybrid model where containers exist alongside virtual machines. “Containers just let you get more out of your infrastructure–whether that infrastructure is a bare metal server or a hypervisor-encapsulated virtual machine,” says Craig Mcluckie, a product manager who oversees Google’s cloud services. “They let you get more out of your basic resources.”..." (read more at link above)
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