Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M

Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by raesene9 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:14AM (#21533988)

There is an easy counter argument which is the post you were replying to talked about the impact Docker had had, it made no arguments about Docker's technical merit.

You replied by talking about your perceptions of Docker having a bad technical design.

These two points are entirely orthagonal, which is why I'd guess your comment got downvoted.

It is frequently the case that the most popular technology is not the one with the "best" technical design.

For example the popularity of JavaScript or PHP. Neither is one that is regarded generally to have good technical design, however they have had a huge impact.

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by tuldia on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:48PM (#21539235)

I know. This was a social experiment.

Thanks for your comment, I appreciate that! Both tools you mentioned are great and kinda relate to this experiment too.

The existence of docker and how it was developed and absorved by people brought nice things too. The kernel had to workout some areas.

The tool itseft is ok. I use something like this:

|-- Dockerfile

|-- README.md

`-- rootfs

    |-- etc

    |   `-- sample

    |       `-- sample.conf

    `-- usr

        `-- bin

            `-- sample

5 directories, 4 files

But I'm not talking about that.

For me is just interesting, you know, the tool itself doesn't matter, one can do that with any tool.

This experiment was to measure how humans entering an existing field will react... just like language has been shaped.

It was a bit sad that nobody was curious enough to talk about ${FOO_PORT:-1234} and why we should deprecate (links) or about "defaults". It was a success, though.

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by yaccz on Thursday November 14, 2019 @10:51PM (#21542070)

Whats the problem with ${FOO_PORT:-1234}?

Sure, it doesnt exist in the language of Dockerfile but you can achieve the same effects in other trivial ways.

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