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Seems like it's more valuable and ubiquitous than mongo db, and their valuations exceed 1.5B

• toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Ubiquitous does not equal value. Docker doesn’t do anything you can’t do with lxc tooling and an object store (registry). That’s the benefit: containers are free, the orchestration is free, and the registry tooling is free and easily replicated. Mongo equally so (JSON in PostgreSQL). These valuations are fantasy.
  • CloudNetworking 8y ago
    Building a scalable service on top of that is not free, nor easy :)
    • toomuchtodo 8y ago
      You're spending those scaling dollars regardless (developers with devops knowledge, infrastructure/SRE folks). Better to spend it on competent staff than a company lighting VC money on fire, no?
      • volkk 8y ago
        i think it's a bit more complicated than that. very skilled developers that know this tech won't jump ship to many borderline broke startups which could easily just get started with docker with less than 'rockstar' devs
      • CloudNetworking 8y ago
        > Better to spend it on competent staff than a company lighting VC money on fire, no? False dichotomy though. You either acknowledge that getting a vendor to do that for you also implies competent staff or you acknowledge that hiring "competent staff" is not like flipping a switch and requires training, ramp-up time, few wrong hires, getting managers to guide the teams, etc I'm not sure which way is better, but I don't think the industry has decided either :)