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<p>My mate Dom introduced me to Docker a couple of months ago, but it took me some time for the power of this technology to sink in.</p><p>Docker is a container platform for Linux that allows individual applications to be sandboxed and run independently, containing all necessary dependencies. Finally this means there is a configure once, deploy everywhere method of application deployment.

While containers are similar to virtual machines, they are built at the application level not at the OS-level. This allows for much smaller sandboxes, which are less resource intensive than VMs. Indeed, tests confirm that Docker containers run at full native speed - unlike VMs that typically suffer a 20-30% performance hit.</p>

<p>Docker is once again another Open Source technology that is setting the pace for building modern, cloud infrastructure.

To read more about this amazing new technology, visit the <a href="https://www.docker.com/" title="Docker website">Docker Website</a>.
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