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by johngossman 11y ago
I enjoyed Cahill's book on this topic, but it is a bit of a romantic overstatement of the case. A more balanced perspective here: http://www.theeway.com/skepticc/review05.html
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by johngossman 11y ago
It might be an interesting contest to find the earliest reference to this debate. It isn't quite what I was looking for, but I found this short comparison of programming languages from 1972 amusing: http://ntrs.nasa.gov&#x2F
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by johngossman 11y ago
We just renamed it to "Visual Studio Team Services" last week. Yeah, everybody assumed it was an online version of Visual Studio. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-te...
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by johngossman 12y ago
Windows Server Containers will absolutely work in other hypervisors. You need to be running Windows as a guest OS obviously.
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by johngossman 12y ago
We're building a new one as part of the Windows Server Container implementation. Also doing copy-on-write registry and tightening up Job Objects: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop&#
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by johngossman 12y ago
Trying to clarify. We are talking about 3 things: 1) OS virtualization for Windows. We announced this last year: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/15/new-windows-serve... 2) Nano Server -- A small
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by johngossman 12y ago
Flew out of Rome a few years ago...very cool seeing this hexagonal lake and knowing it is nearly 2000 years old.
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by johngossman 12y ago
Basically Gray's argument comes down to: human nature hasn't changed. This may be true, but considering the irrefutable real advances in agriculture, medicine, literacy, communication, education and transportation reflected in suc
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by johngossman 12y ago
We understand it, but its really hard to explain briefly. So many people assume Docker==Linux Containers. Throw in virtual machines and start talking about running a Linux app in a Docker container in HyperV on Windows and it only really wo
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by johngossman 12y ago
John Gossman from Microsoft here. Windows Server containers use the approach sometimes called Operating System Virtualization, just like Linux containers, Jails, etc.. The Wikipedia article is a pretty good summary: http://en.wi
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by johngossman 12y ago
This work is completely Windows Server focused.
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by johngossman 12y ago
It's definitely not a wrapper around boot2docker. It's the kernel work etc. to enable native Windows containers running on Windows Server. No VMs need apply. That said, we're also working with Docker on the future of the boot
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by johngossman 12y ago
Nick is right. Our default answer will be to use Go to be consistent with the rest of the Docker project. But we'll use whatever language is right for that part of the project.
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We're only looking at Windows Server for now
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by johngossman 12y ago
John Gossman from Microsoft here. I'm an architect on the Azure team and have been working with Nick and others from Docker. Happy to answer questions.