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Published inAug 2017
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Jarosław Krochmalski
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Jarosław Krochmalski

Jaroslaw Krochmalski is a passionate software designer and developer who specializes in the financial business domain. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He is a clean-code and software craftsmanship enthusiast. He is a Certified Scrum Master and a fan of Agile. His professional interests include new technologies in web application development, design patterns, enterprise architecture, and integration patterns. He has been designing and developing software professionally since 2000 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 2002. In the past, he worked for companies such as Kredyt Bank (KBC) and Bank BPS on many large-scale projects such as international money orders, express payments and collection systems. He currently works as a consultant in Danish company 7N as an IT architect for the Nykredit bank. You can reach him via Twitter at @jkroch or by e-mail at jarek@finsys.pl. I would like to say hello to my friends at 7N and Nykredit, keep up the great job!
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Why do we need Kubernetes?

As you already know, Docker containers provide great flexibility for running Java services packaged into small, independent pieces of software. Docker containers make components of your application portable--you can move individual services across different environments without needing to worry about the dependencies or the underlying operating system. As long as the operating system is able to run the Docker engine, your Java containers can run on this system.

Also, as you remember from Chapter 1, Introduction to Docker, the Docker concept of isolating containers is far from the traditional virtualization. The difference is that Docker containers utilize the resources of the host operating system--they are light, fast, and easy to spin up. It's all very nice, but there are some risks. Your application consists of multiple, independent microservices...

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Jaroslaw Krochmalski is a passionate software designer and developer who specializes in the financial business domain. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He is a clean-code and software craftsmanship enthusiast. He is a Certified Scrum Master and a fan of Agile. His professional interests include new technologies in web application development, design patterns, enterprise architecture, and integration patterns. He has been designing and developing software professionally since 2000 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 2002. In the past, he worked for companies such as Kredyt Bank (KBC) and Bank BPS on many large-scale projects such as international money orders, express payments and collection systems. He currently works as a consultant in Danish company 7N as an IT architect for the Nykredit bank. You can reach him via Twitter at @jkroch or by e-mail at jarek@finsys.pl. I would like to say hello to my friends at 7N and Nykredit, keep up the great job!
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