Yes kind of but also not really -- this answer was really delightful to read because Alpine linux literally was the first answer to the first concerns with cont

Yes kind of but also not really -- this answer was really delightful to read because Alpine linux literally was the first answer to the first concerns with container size. Before docker multi stage builds existed (people we doing the builder pattern adhoc before that anyway), the usual way to get drastic size reductions in container size was to run your container on alpine linux. Base Ubuntu/Fedora used to be absolutely huge, and no one was smart/patient enough to pick out all the dynamic libs that you needed with your JAR or script to go into production so you usually just shipped the whole fat image.