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> Docker’s journey reads like a startup trying to find product-market fit, except Docker already had product-market fit Strongly disagree. The core Docker tech
by rmccue 8mo ago
> Docker’s journey reads like a startup trying to find product-market fit, except Docker already had product-market fit
Strongly disagree. The core Docker technology was an excellent product and as the article says, had a massive impact on the industry. But they never found a market for that technology at any price point that wasn't ~free, so they didn't have PMF. That technology also only took off in the way it did because it was free and open source.
- LtWorf 8mo agoThe entire technology is a wrapper on setns().
- airstrike 8mo agoAnd Dropbox is just curlftpfs
- llbbdd 8mo agoThe whole computer is a wrapper around electricity
- ronsor 8mo agoAnd humans are just a wrapper around oxygen, food, and water.
- hashstring 8mo agoThat’s just a wrapper around quarks for the most part…
- MikeNotThePope 8mo agoI personally identify as a quark-gluon plasma held together by the strong force and a sheer lack a boundaries.
- steve_adams_86 8mo agoI could build that in a weekend
- llbbdd 8mo agoI misread this as a reply to the "humans are just a wrapper around..." comment and was like, that's a fun weekend.
- bedstefar 8mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_Un...
- yencabulator 8mo ago> The core Docker technology was an excellent product Nah, the core Docker technology was an utter shitshow programmed by people without the relevant experience. The Go IRC channel fielded repeated questions from Docker developers on how to unpack a compressed tarball from a streaming source. At one point, Docker computed a hash of the files it downloaded, but never compared the hash to anything. Docker was always below par for the space it wanted to be in. They had good marketing. The story has many commonalities with MongoDB.