Back in September 2016, an event went unnoticed, although it was a fundamental change. Google and RedHat declared the game is over: they decided to fork Docker. Why did they decide to do that? Redhat had several reasons: Container conception:…Read more ›... (more…)

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At the beginning of 2016, Nextdoor production releases took about an hour. That is to say, once all the code in the new release was tested…...

CodeCrafters is a set of advanced programming challenges where you build programming tools like Git, Redis and Docker from scratch. (more…)

One thing I've come to respect about containers are how easy they make packaging and running Linux infrastructure. No more fighting the distro for the right version of a package, a dozen builds for a dozen distro-specific packages, etc. Everything is en... (more…)