In the middle of this ramble: "I wish developers were more willing to consider the possibility that their favorite computer programming may not be ideal for a

In the middle of this ramble: "I wish developers were more willing to consider the possibility that their favorite computer programming may not be ideal for a world of distributed computing in the cloud. Apparently I’m shouting into the wind on this issue." Maybe understand someone's job before telling them what tools they should be using? Sure, simpler is usually better engineering. But results are important. Docker is helping a lot of developers get results, and the author is clearly not one of them. And in conclusion: "Docker strikes me as a direction that one day will be seen as a mistake." Name one technical movement that wasn't! I'm not sure why it's such a shock that programmers are "fashion-conscious". It matters more that we put our collective effort behind something with a few years vision, not necessarily what that something is. (I speak as a member of the minority waiting for the phone industry to get over its obsession with black glass rectangles and get back to making proper phones for grown-ups that come with proper keyboards, rather than pandering to the teenage dem~~increasingly loud static hiss~~)