Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish

Re:Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish by toomuchtodo on Sunday March 10, 2019 @01:29PM (#19353045)

Ubiquitous does not equal value. Docker doesn’t do anything you can’t do with lxc tooling and an object store (registry). That’s the benefit: containers are free, the orchestration is free, and the registry tooling is free and easily replicated.

Mongo equally so (JSON in PostgreSQL). These valuations are fantasy.

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Re:Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish by CloudNetworking on Sunday March 10, 2019 @02:22PM (#19353367)

Building a scalable service on top of that is not free, nor easy :)

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Re:Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish by toomuchtodo on Sunday March 10, 2019 @03:42PM (#19353931)

You're spending those scaling dollars regardless (developers with devops knowledge, infrastructure/SRE folks). Better to spend it on competent staff than a company lighting VC money on fire, no?

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Re:Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish by CloudNetworking on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:04AM (#19358023)

> Better to spend it on competent staff than a company lighting VC money on fire, no?

False dichotomy though. You either acknowledge that getting a vendor to do that for you also implies competent staff or you acknowledge that hiring "competent staff" is not like flipping a switch and requires training, ramp-up time, few wrong hires, getting managers to guide the teams, etc

I'm not sure which way is better, but I don't think the industry has decided either :)

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Re:Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish by volkk on Sunday March 10, 2019 @06:37PM (#19355127)

i think it's a bit more complicated than that. very skilled developers that know this tech won't jump ship to many borderline broke startups which could easily just get started with docker with less than 'rockstar' devs

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