A Strategy for Container Lifecycle Management

Virtualization has been around much of the history of computing from the introduction of virtual memory to virtualization at the operating system level and containers. The use of containers as a deployment tool has boomed since the release of Docker as free software in 2013. Docker includes a large set of tools ranging from building and executing containers on a single node to managing multiple containers in clusters. However, the distribution of deployment descriptors and of maintenance scripts is not properly addressed. This work introduces the mechanisms provided by Docker and describes a practice developed by the Bitlogic team for the deployment and management of the container lifecycle.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

A Strategy for Container Lifecycle Management

Virtualization has been around much of the history of computing -from the introduction of virtual memory to virtualization at the operating system level and containers. The use of containers as a deployment tool has boomed since the release of Docker as free software in 2013. Docker includes a large set of tools ranging from building and executing containers on a single node to managing multiple containers in clusters. However, the distribution of deployment descriptors and of maintenance scripts is not properly addressed. This work introduces the mechanisms provided by Docker and describes a practice developed by the Bitlogic team for the deployment and management of the container lifecycle.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

A Strategy for Container Lifecycle Management

Virtualization has been around much of the history of computing -from the introduction of virtual memory to virtualization at the operating system level and containers. The use of containers as a deployment tool has boomed since the release of Docker as free software in 2013. Docker includes a large set of tools ranging from building and executing containers on a single node to managing multiple containers in clusters. However, the distribution of deployment descriptors and of maintenance scripts is not properly addressed. This work introduces the mechanisms provided by Docker and describes a practice developed by the Bitlogic team for the deployment and management of the container lifecycle.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

A Strategy for Container Lifecycle Management

Virtualization has been around much of the history of computing -from the introduction of virtual memory to virtualization at the operating system level and containers. The use of containers as a deployment tool has boomed since the release of Docker as free software in 2013. Docker includes a large set of tools ranging from building and executing containers on a single node to managing multiple containers in clusters. However, the distribution of deployment descriptors and of maintenance scripts is not properly addressed. This work introduces the mechanisms provided by Docker and describes a practice developed by the Bitlogic team for the deployment and management of the container lifecycle.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

Global economic burden of unmet surgical need for appendicitis

Background There is a substantial gap in provision of adequate surgical care in many low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the economic burden of unmet surgical need for the common condition of appendicitis. Methods Data on the incidence of appendicitis from 170 countries and two different approaches were used to estimate numbers of patients who do not receive surgery: as a fixed proportion of the total unmet surgical need per country (approach 1); and based on country income status (approach 2). Indirect costs with current levels of access and local quality, and those if quality were at the standards of high-income countries, were estimated. A human capital approach was applied, focusing on the economic burden resulting from premature death and absenteeism. Results Excess mortality was 4185 per 100 000 cases of appendicitis using approach 1 and 3448 per 100 000 using approach 2. The economic burden of continuing current levels of access and local quality was US $92 492 million using approach 1 and$73 141 million using approach 2. The economic burden of not providing surgical care to the standards of high-income countries was $95 004 million using approach 1 and$75 666 million using approach 2. The largest share of these costs resulted from premature death (97.7 per cent) and lack of access (97.0 per cent) in contrast to lack of quality. Conclusion For a comparatively non-complex emergency condition such as appendicitis, increasing access to care should be prioritized. Although improving quality of care should not be neglected, increasing provision of care at current standards could reduce societal costs substantially

Global economic burden of unmet surgical need for appendicitis

Background There is a substantial gap in provision of adequate surgical care in many low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the economic burden of unmet surgical need for the common condition of appendicitis. Methods Data on the incidence of appendicitis from 170 countries and two different approaches were used to estimate numbers of patients who do not receive surgery: as a fixed proportion of the total unmet surgical need per country (approach 1); and based on country income status (approach 2). Indirect costs with current levels of access and local quality, and those if quality were at the standards of high-income countries, were estimated. A human capital approach was applied, focusing on the economic burden resulting from premature death and absenteeism. Results Excess mortality was 4185 per 100 000 cases of appendicitis using approach 1 and 3448 per 100 000 using approach 2. The economic burden of continuing current levels of access and local quality was US $92 492 million using approach 1 and$73 141 million using approach 2. The economic burden of not providing surgical care to the standards of high-income countries was $95 004 million using approach 1 and$75 666 million using approach 2. The largest share of these costs resulted from premature death (97.7 per cent) and lack of access (97.0 per cent) in contrast to lack of quality. Conclusion For a comparatively non-complex emergency condition such as appendicitis, increasing access to care should be prioritized. Although improving quality of care should not be neglected, increasing provision of care at current standards could reduce societal costs substantially