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If you've started using Docker for a while you might be asking the same question «how to manage a group of Docker containers into a consistent topology?».

Gartner’s long-awaited  Top 10 strategic technological trends  for 20151 have just been released this month and, for the second consecutive year2, one our most cherished topics at OCTO is prominently featured. In Gartner terminology, what we call the Practices of the  Giants of the Web 3, 4 becomes Web-Scale IT , and is inspired by "large cloud services firms"5, 6. Here, we offer a brief overview of this trend for 2015.

The "BAF" is a technique widely used in OCTO. In general, this allows the consultant for a continuous and incremental way to propose a delivery, a technical definition, an article, a conference, etc ... Always together with a critical review of the counterparty, with a view to continuous improvement.

We are initiating a new set of articles in order to give you our opinion concerning what's happening in the Tech world.

Octo Technology hosted last week in Lausanne (Switzerland) the first meetup of the Swiss DevOps community. As guest speaker, @NuttySwiss, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Twitter gave a talk about Apache Mesos, Aurora and SRE. Mesos is the heart of Twitter infrastructure and allows to run multiple services in a reliable way inside their data centers. Aurora is the scheduler that run on top of Mesos. SRE stands for Site Reliability Engineering. Octo was happy to welcome this meetup and is looking forward to help the Swiss…

On January 24th in São Paulo, Mathieu Despriée - Consultant and Senior Architect at OCTO Technology - gave a talk about the innovative practices the Web Giants use to apply: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix and LinkedIn to name some. Here are the video and the slides, covering the following topics: Reduce the Time to Market; Mitigate issues when dealing with growing traffic and high volumes of data; Excellence and quality for the products.         Links Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGW631c4cO0 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/OCTOTechnology/minicourse-web-giants/ Dedicated website to the Web Giants (in French): http://www.geantsduweb.com/

The first beta version of Hadoop 2 has just been released. It is the 2.1.0. More interesting, the stable version is expected to follow by mid-September. Only a few bugs away from Hadoop 2! That's a good news but you might be wondering why you should care about it? After all, the most important is what this new major version can bring to your next datalab or to your production cluster, isn't it? In this article, we will cover the differences between Hadoop 1 and…

UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF THE GIANTS OF THE WEB 10 tips for improving your business In the US and everywhere else, the Giants of the Web are reinventing the way IT is done. These revolutionaries are Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn, to name but a few. OCTO is releasing Les Géants du Web, a new book explaining what has changed in the world of IT. Join us at our breakfast event where Ludovic Cinquin, VP of OCTO Technology and co-author of Les Géants du Web, will speak…

  Since 2007, OCTO intervenes on problems involving User eXperience as a key element in helping its clients achieve innovative products and applications, useful and usable in tune with the complexity of their business challenges. After our first meeting during USI 2012, we are delighted to welcome the Adaptive Path team for a workshop which will walk you through UX from strategy to practice, promising intesity despite a playful approach. Jesse James Garrett's team, Adaptive Path, will give for this workshop UX Essentials ( Programm…

This is the END.   We created an iPad app for Keytrade Bank, and we just launched it!, You can download it here. Please contact us if you what to talk with us about this reference & our expertise!   Mixed feelings: happiness because it’s really a major achievement, nostalgia because we really loved building this app and now we are just slightly nervous as we hope users will love to consult their accounts, transfer money and trade using the Keytrade app as much as we enjoyed…