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> Reproducibility is a big problem in analytic pipelines, specifically genomics... [Docker solves this problem]. There is a legitimate fundamental issue with r
by tonyhb 9y ago
> Reproducibility is a big problem in analytic pipelines, specifically genomics... [Docker solves this problem].
There is a legitimate fundamental issue with reproducing people's setups and Docker solves this. Ergo docker is valuable technology for data science.
Literally typing `docker run...` to reproduce results (vs. VM setup, installation etc.) seems important enough to justify their phrasing.
Fact: there are handfuls of data science startups that essentially rebrand docker and have been funded in the hundreds of millions of dollars specifically to solve this problem.