IntelliJ IDEA vs Docker: Which is a better fit?

Philip T.: My name is Phil. I'm a writer and I give IntelliJ IDEA 5-stars. I decided to try and learn how to write code for Android applications, so I used IntelliJ IDEA as the environment to do that work. It has absolutely everything on it. It's all in one place. Easy to navigate as well and nice clean interface. It was easy to use. I picked it up really quickly. The Help files could probably be improved for IntelliJ IDEA because it offers so much that you can do. There's a lot that you need to learn. So if you're new to the platform, there's a very steep learning curve.

Mohit A.: Hi, this is Mohit. I work as a DevOps consultant in a IT software company, which size of this company is around 1 lakh to 1.5 lakh employees. And we work with Docker and I would rate Docker as five star. We working with the AWS Lambda and there was no other container, as such, when we were working with some of the clients. They were using the old way of deploying directly into the servers, but Docker really helped a lot when we introduced Docker to convert those application into container based applications and deployment, so it was quite easy working with Docker. Multiple clients were facing multiple issues like the stability issues when we were deploying applications to different servers. The high availability, the server or application goes down, then there was no backup or user was facing issues with the application downtime. With the introduction of Docker, we could sustain that. We could run same application, multiple containers so that we have a high availability if any container goes down, the other containers was up. And scaling of the application, so that was another challenge with working without Docker containers. Because whenever an application needs more space, more memory, server you can't just increase in one day or one night. But Docker, you can have the scaling capabilities, horizontal scaling, where you can have multiple containers running for the same application. These two challenges were fixed with the help of Docker applications? Yes. It was quite easy. Docker comes with a lot of features. You just need to write a Docker file and then you can just create a image and deploy it. It's very easy, I think, rather than even deploying application onto servers, then you have to look into multiple configurations and even have to do some custom scripting, but in the Docker, you are good. It comes with a lot of features where you can just develop and deploy applications in the container. Moreover, it is always dependent. You can have same application running in Android container or Apple based, iOS based container running, or any platform you can just create image and deploy it. That's quite easy to work with Docker. Yes. I would highly recommend Docker to be used, especially when you are working in microservices based applications. That's the whole beauty of Docker that you can have applications contained in a smaller size and you can have independent applications running in multiple containers. And when there is a change in any feature announcements on anything you want to change, so you can just change in that particular module of that application running in a different container and then you don't need to touch whole entire code. I would really recommend Docker for the applications which can be containerized and where we have to deploy in multiple servers or operating systems. This is really good.