Are Portable Containers Destroying Standards?

The CCS Insight Podcast

Containers can be a vital tool in the development of operations teams, allowing developers to build up skills in a technology that isn't specific to a particular type or workload, and to become more responsible for the life cycle of their applications. These portable containers can help organizations as they transition to the cloud by making workloads accessible across different technologies. However, the solution is still evolving, and some question if portable containers are destroying standards.

For this episode of the CCS Insight podcast, our chief of enterprise research, Bola Rotibi, was joined by IBM's Emily Jiang, Liberty Cloud Native Architect and Advocate, and Graham Charters, WebSphere and Liberty product manager. We also spoke to Clive Howard, chief technology officer at Huozhi, a provider of a humanitarian fintech platform. Clive is also an associate analyst at CCS Insight.

Our discussion unpacked the importance of containers in modern app development and how challenges are being addressed to help organizations make the move into the cloud. We also highlighted the role of APIs, and how they can serve to bring in other solutions and use other environments when containers aren't an applicable solution.

The podcast offers guidance on the needs of modern application development, discussing:

- How the industry is addressing API standards to increase developers' efficiency and allow them to reuse their skills.

- What value these standards present to businesses, and how technical leads can present this to their business counterparts thinking about investing in containers and APIs.

- How developers can use open standards to apply existing skills to different implementations, achieving standardization, consistency and portability across the board.

CCS Insight has produced a free report offering insight into how containers are affecting the standards landscape.