Much of the recent #bigdata experience has been a bare-metal affair, meaning #Hadoop has happened largely on non-virtualized servers. That could change as containers and microservices gain traction in application development circles.
Both containers and microservices break up monolithic application code into more finely grained pieces. That streamlines development and makes for easier testing, which is one of the keys to more flexible application deployment and code reuse.
It is early on for such techniques to be applied to big data, but, for new jobs like data streaming, microservices shows promise. For a technology manager at a leading European e-commerce company, the microservices approach simplifies development and enables code reuse.
With microservices, "you can very much economize on what you're doing," according to Rupert Steffner, chief platform architect for business intelligence systems at Otto GmbH, a multichannel retailer based in Hamburg, Germany. He goes further: For some types of applications, not using microservices "is stupid. You're building the same functionality over and over again."
The types of applications Steffner is talking about are multiple artificial intelligence (AI) bots that run various real-time analytics jobs on the company's online retail site. Otto uses a combination of microservices, #Docker containers and stream processing technologies to power these AI bots.
http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/news/450401973/Containers-and-microservices-find-home-in-Hadoop-ecosystem
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