I know how everyone loves to take pictures of slides, but here are my slides from my presentation at ContainerCon North America 2016 titled Highly Available and Distributed Containers. The premise of the talk was to examine the history and the fast pace of the Docker projects. Technology that is older than 6 months to a year is now considered "legacy". Using various forms of analogies we can see how complexity and ease of use have a correlation. As complexity of a technology increases, the easier it becomes to use. All of that was shown through a process of demos that will be seen on some follow-up blog posts over the next week.

It was over a year ago when I started taking on a new adventure and weaned myself off of Ruby in favor of Node.js. I started learning Javascript initially by manipulating the DOM and then ventured into server-side scripting with Node.js. My initial Node project was S3Motion, but I wanted to learn how to use a web framework. Express.js is the de-facto standard because it's been battle tested and has lots of support. I immediately found that as I tried to create a CRUD web app, it wasn't as easy as using Rails. There were so many opinionated blog posts and semi-finished examples that there wasn't a single source that showed everything from start to finish. I decided to enter a writing competition sponsored by AirPair detailing the process, soup to nuts, and actually WON! Check out the article How to Create a Complete Express.js + Node.js + MongoDB CRUD and REST Skeleton (login with GitHub to see all the code snippets instead of the garbage). This sparked my most popular GitHub repo express-node-mongo-skeleton that has been getting new stars and forks weekly.

I had a blast presenting at ContainerCon 2015 (also called LinuxCon and Cloud Open). Unfortunately, none of the sessions were recorded but I do have my slides available. The session title was "Dude, where's my data? Persistence with Docker". As you can guess, I talked about how you can achieve data persistence between containers and save state. It even included a demo of migrating a wordpress instance across hosts. You can access them at bit.ly/containercon.

If you want to know exactly what I presented, you can checkout the rexray and wordpress-compose repos. 

Here's the slide deck I presented at the St. Louis VMUG

http://kendrickcoleman.com/slides/rulevmware