The Future of Microscaling and the Current State of Container Deployments

Feb 21st, 2017 10:22am by Joab Jackson

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke with Liz Rice, a co-founder of Microscaling. Rice, as well as the other two co-founders of Microscaling, Anne Currie and Ross Fairbanks, are thought-leaders in the emerging field of container-based microservices.

So we were surprised when the trio had announced earlier this month that they were putting Microscaling on hold, at least temporarily. Microscaling had built out a number of interesting technologies, including software that offers a way to schedule containers based on service-level agreements and current operating conditions, and also a format, called Microbadger, for adding metadata labels to containers. For this podcast, we wanted to know what would happen with these technologies, as well as get Rice’s assessment on the current state of microservices and container deployments.

The Demise of Microscaling and the Future of Microservices

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Topics:

1:20: Microscaling put on hold.
4:20: Microscaling’s scheduling and metadata technologies.
7:55: Microscaling container scheduler.
9:20: Low utilization of cloud servers (USENIX article).
11:00: Microbadger metadata labeling.
17:50: Microservices in practice today (Gareth Rushgrove’s talk).
20:20: Next steps for the crew.
21:30: ImageLayers.

Feature image: New York City street art: Jellyfish.

Joab Jackson is a senior editor for The New Stack, covering cloud native computing and system operations. He has reported on IT infrastructure and development for over 25 years, including stints at IDG and Government Computer News. Before that, he...