In our recent report, we describe that many enterprises today face a stark reality: despite years of digital transformation efforts, the majority of enterprise workloads—up to 80%—still run on legacy systems. This lag in modernization not only increases operational costs and security risks but also limits the agility needed to compete in a rapidly evolving market. The pressure is on for technology leaders to accelerate the ongoing modernization of legacy applications and to accelerate cloud adoption, but the path forward is often blocked by technical complexity, risk, and resource constraints. Full Report: Accelerate Modernization with Docker.Enterprises have long been treating…
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Let us be honest; most database upgrades feel like a patchwork of performance tweaks and security updates. But SQL Server 2025? It is not just an upgrade. It is a redefinition of what a database can be in the age of AI, real-time analytics, and hybrid cloud ecosystems.I did not approach this release like a checklist. I approached it like a challenge: What if your database can think faster, search smarter, and connect deeper; without rewriting your entire stack?Here is what I found:Vector Search: SQL Meets SemanticsForget keyword matching. SQL Server 2025 introduces native vector data types and Approximate Nearest…
The future arrived quietly this month, but not in the way we hoped. While developers worldwide were busy leveraging AI to write code faster and solve problems more efficiently, a malicious actor was demonstrating just how easily our AI assistants could turn against us.Amazon’s Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code, a tool trusted by nearly a million developers, briefly became a potential weapon of mass digital destruction. The incident, quietly disclosed in AWS Security Bulletin AWS-2025-015, represents more than just a security hiccup. It’s a glimpse into a new category of cyberthreats that should fundamentally change how we think…
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was once a widely used method for transferring files or data remotely. However, it transmits information in an unencrypted format, making it an insecure way to communicate. As we all know, FTP is not secure because all transmissions occur in clear text, which means that anyone sniffing network packets can easily read the data. Because of this, FTP should only be used in limited cases or on networks you fully trust. Over time, protocols like SCP (Secure Copy) and SSH (Secure Shell) have addressed these security concerns by introducing encrypted layers for securely transferring data between…
As a software Engineer, I would like to deploy my Dockerized Python Application to Azure Container Instance (ACI) using Azure DevOps so that I can automate my workflow and eliminate any manual intervention during the deployment.In this blog post, I will walk you through how to build and deploy a Dockerized Python Application to Azure Container Instances (ACI) using Azure DevOps. The workflow will build and deploy the docker image to Azure Container Registry (ACR), and finally, the application will be deployed to Azure Container Instances.What is Azure? Azure is a cloud computing platform and services, provided by Microsoft. It…
CD and DVD writers are a thing of the past. You are not likely to find them in modern-day laptops. If your goal is to create a bootable medium, then creating a bootable USB drive from an ISO file remains your best option. There are quite a number of tools that can help you create a bootable USB drive. Some will even go further and let you create a multi-boot USB drive where you get to choose the OS that you want to install. Here are some of the widely-used utilities for creating a bootable USB drive from an ISO…
Compose Editing Evolved: Schema-Driven and Context-Aware Every day, thousands of developers are creating and editing Compose files. At Docker, we are regularly adding more features to Docker Compose such as the new provider services capability that lets you run AI models as part of your multi-container applications with Docker Model Runner. We know that providing a first-class editing experience for Compose…
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There’s one question every parent dreads hearing from their child: “Daddy, where do babies come from?”We’ve all heard the responses over the years—storks, God, mommy’s belly, “ask your mother,” you name it. But beneath the awkwardness lies a fundamental question: how do we make more of us? Oddly enough, the tech world is now grappling with its own version of this question: Where do software engineers come from?And lately, the answers we’re getting aren’t much better than “the stork.”The Vanishing Junior DeveloperOver the last year or so, we’ve seen a troubling trend take root. Across LinkedIn, Reddit, public layoff announcements and…
So many of us are using AI assistants and there are so many out there. I thought It’d be fun to showcase how different these tools can be and describe their strengths and weaknesses. When it comes to AI assistants, there are a lot of topics, from coding to image creation to recipes. That’s right… I ask CoPilot how to make a cake and other things. In fact AI is so good at baking that it’s crazy. Don’t believe me, I prompted CoPilot for a chocolate that is moist. I don’t have the exact prompt anymore but this has become…