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RC1 of the Label Schema spec was just announced by Gareth Rushgrove of Puppet at the Container Camp conference in London. The spec is a community effort from multiple companies inc…

Homage to Catalonia is my favourite Orwell book. There is also a Ken Loach film called Land and Freedom that is similar to Orwell's story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_Fr…

Hi, I'm Ross one of the developers at Force12.io. We just launched a major update to our container scaling demo. You can now run your own container images and control how many cont…

This is also something ClusterHQ are working on with their Flocker product. https://clusterhq.com/flocker/introduction/

Yes the Go code is on GitHub. It has the integration we've done with the Docker Remote API. https://github.com/force12io/force12 The follow up releases will be for the integrations…

Yes the tool we've released today is for playing with and not production use. It's single host to keep things simple. Definitely agree for production use a multiple host cluster is…

We're working on a container scaling solution that runs on top of the scheduler. It will scale containers based on current demand. There is overlap with the Swarm strategies but we…

Hi, I'm Ross one of the developers at Force12io. We've done a blog post with more details about the tool. http://blog.force12.io/2015/10/16/microscaling-in-a-box.html Happy to answ…

I think the reduced attack surface and faster startup times will have a big impact eventually. At the moment language choice is a blocker for me. I don't want to have to learn OCam…

London has a similar issue with house prices / rents continuing to rise much faster than the rest of the UK. I relocated from London to Barcelona 3 years ago to do remote freelance…

Elastic Beanstalk is a wrapper for multiple AWS services. The Docker multi container version uses ECS for containers. Using ECS directly can be more work but it also gives more con…

Thanks, I'll be posting it to HN! You've probably seen it but for Elastic Beanstalk there is now a multi container version which uses ECS under the hood. Previously there was a lim…

Yes this is based on the trial release of ECS. Some extra features were added in the GA release last month. There is now ECS support in the AWS web console Also ECS Services can au…