Docker vs AppSheet: Which is a better fit?

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.

Lucas: Hi, I'm Lucas. I'm a project manager, and I give AppSheet four out of five stars. For more reviews like this click below. So before we went with AppSheet, we tried a number of different tools to create a table-like app. We tried Excel and Google Sheets, but they didn't offer the right editing and interactivity permission, and they weren't great enough, honestly. We tried a great program called Stackby, but again, it didn't really allow us to do what we wanted to do. And a lot of the app builders that were out there we found were complicated to set up. So we went with AppSheet instead. So we went with AppSheet because, first of all, they're linked with Google, and so they gave us some confidence that there was a solid team behind it. Plus, with material design, it looks pretty good. They also gave us a really good discount as a nonprofit organization. And probably more important than any of those, it seemed like actually offered the right balance of complexity in the possibilities with simplicity of actually building the app, so it wasn't terribly hard to build in it. The good thing with AppSheet is that we could build a web app that we can embed in our own website, as well as publish it as an app. So it was easy to deploy it, but getting started with creating the app itself was a little bit complicated, just learning the ecosystem of AppSheet. There's a great community and there's great documentation, but there's still just a lot of options and a lot to learn. So honestly, it was a bit of a slog to get going with it, even though it was still simpler than some other things we tried. So if you're considering AppSheet, as someone who's used it for a year and a half or so, my advice would be, yeah, it's a solid choice. Do look around and make sure that it's the best choice for your application. So AppSheet is not as easy to use as your desktop publishing programs. It does work well, but you might want to consider something like the apps. There are different ways that you can build apps on top of air your table. And there are different companies that provide those apps, or you might want to consider a program that is actually specifically designed for your business application. So do look around and make sure that AppSheet offers you the best value for the money and is the most flexible program for your use case.