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Re:Running Java on Docker images on a Mac by dkersten on Monday May 15, 2017 @05:07AM (#14340175)
We run java + clojure in Docker and we do it so that we can connect all of the dependencies together with Docker-compose. We don't "develop" inside docker, but we do integration tests in docker. We also deploy (CI and prod) on docker for convenience.

This setup also allows us test resiliency under bad network conditions using https://github.com/IG-Group/Havoc/

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Re:Running Java on Docker images on a Mac by rockostrich on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:34AM (#14341873)
This is how I like to use Docker. Especially if it's a project that I'm working on every day. Docker-compose makes running a single app and all of its dependencies locally really simple.

The other use case for Docker, for me at least, is running specific versions of libraries. The other day we had a problem with npm and it was working for everyone locally. Turns out we were a few versions behind and it was much simpler to do `docker run -it node:0.12 bash` than to install the node version manager alongside my homebrew install of node.

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