Re:Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventua...
by hardwaresofton on Friday May 31, 2019 @09:51AM
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> I think that what the author was trying to say (without really understanding it) was a comparison of containers to VMs as units of software deployment.
I agree, I think the next evolution of software deployment is definitely heading to sub-program sizes. I do want to point out that we've seen this before, it was called CGI. It's not exactly the same, and things will be better this time (more isolation, better tooling), but if we're doing functions-as-a-service now, we were doing scripts-as-a-service much earlier.
I think the great unbundling of the future is definitely coming and in fact it's already here -- it's just unevenly distributed.
> I agree that Docker doesn't have a huge and profitable future ahead of it, because it's providing commodity infrastructure. Rather I think it's interesting to think about what the next level of software deployment decomposition will be, and I'd wager that it's FaaS (ie serverless).
This was not what I meant to get across -- Docker may have a huge and profitable future ahead of it, but is only tangentially related to the near assured continuance of containerization. Docker as a company and project's goals are different, they do more than simply offer a way to run containers, and they have for a very long time -- my point was that the literal use of the word "docker" should die, because we should be just referring to containerization in the general sense (no matter which lib you're using). It's like the "tissue" vs "kleenex" debate, in a way.
I agree, I think the next evolution of software deployment is definitely heading to sub-program sizes. I do want to point out that we've seen this before, it was called CGI. It's not exactly the same, and things will be better this time (more isolation, better tooling), but if we're doing functions-as-a-service now, we were doing scripts-as-a-service much earlier.
I think the great unbundling of the future is definitely coming and in fact it's already here -- it's just unevenly distributed.
> I agree that Docker doesn't have a huge and profitable future ahead of it, because it's providing commodity infrastructure. Rather I think it's interesting to think about what the next level of software deployment decomposition will be, and I'd wager that it's FaaS (ie serverless).
This was not what I meant to get across -- Docker may have a huge and profitable future ahead of it, but is only tangentially related to the near assured continuance of containerization. Docker as a company and project's goals are different, they do more than simply offer a way to run containers, and they have for a very long time -- my point was that the literal use of the word "docker" should die, because we should be just referring to containerization in the general sense (no matter which lib you're using). It's like the "tissue" vs "kleenex" debate, in a way.