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Well Docker used to be dotCloud, a PaaS company around the time of Heroku, but that didn't take off. So they pivoted to Docker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by chubot 6y ago
Well Docker used to be dotCloud, a PaaS company around the time of Heroku, but that didn't take off. So they pivoted to Docker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker,_Inc.
Heroku had a lot of revenue and was acquired by Salesforce. I just learned on Twitter that YC was in the red before the Heroku acquistion !
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1334945195532685317 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1334945195532685317
I think what Heroku did right is really nail the Rails experience, and the Rails customer base. And then they expanded to multiple languages with the "Cedar" stack.
dotCloud tried to do every language from the get-go, and had a subpar experience for all of them, from what I understand.
- bmelton 6y agoThe python/django experience on dotCloud was really rather nice, actually. Perhaps much of that sympathy was coming from people were comparing Rails/Heroku with Rails/dotCloud, where Heroku has a rather big head start, but Django/dotCloud was the first easy, pipelineable deployment experience I had ever found despite having already tried all the early competition. It probably wouldn't have taken long for a Python-centric competitor to leapfrog them, but by the time they had, dotCloud was basically all in on the Docker experience, which was transformative.