Why VMware Application Catalog?

The following are the key areas where VAC addresses detailed challenges with its capabilities for delivering better developer productivity, security, and operational practices when it comes to providing a way to consume popular open source software (OSS) and deploy it as running containers.

Using the right tool for the right purpose with the flexibility of choice

As we discussed previously, most business applications depend on one or more backing services, and depending on the nature of the application, the need for such backing services can be different. We have seen that using a relational database as a backend data store has been the most common backing service for the past several years. But some modern cloud-native applications could perform better with other data stores such as NoSQL. Similarly, if an application needs a queue as a backing service, we can use either Kafka or RabbitMQ. But both Kafka and RabbitMQ have their own niche use cases...