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Given developer x and developer y, each with adequate technical skills but poor teamwork abilities, there's some business value in being able to employ both giv
by jt2190 9y ago
Given developer x and developer y, each with adequate technical skills but poor teamwork abilities, there's some business value in being able to employ both given that the cost of dealing with their poor teamwork doesn't exceed the business value they can each deliver.
In the past we might have to decide to forego employing one or both. Now we kind of have the option of giving each dev their own "playground" via containers, and not actually expect either to improve their teamwork skills. Again, as long as the cost of supporting the container infrastructure is lower that the business value each dev can deliver, it's a net win.
In practice I'm not sure if containers can really deliver on this promise, but it's a very seductive idea.
- cat199 9y agoSame is true for VM's, BSD jails, or even chroot() think the issues being pointed out here are more about the whole 'linux container ecosystem' which has a notion of statically built containers, automated system orchestration, etc, and primarily in an operations context..