This article failed to mention the most important thing: An actual advantage of fat binaries. The closest he comes is saying that he feels the docker way is "old"... As compared with fat binaries, which is how desktop applications have been shipped for decades. Hell, size, the only clear would-be advantage, is only mentioned in a throaway sentence.

> Yes, the network can be very powerful, but trying to use it for everything is a royal pain.

He says this after saying docker is unsuited for the massive scale of microservices... Where everything communicates through the network anyways.

Also I have a feeling he doesn't know the distinction between kubernetes and docker. They don't actually compete with each other, I don't even understand the comparison. Kubernetes uses docker.

All in all, I'm not convinced.

PS: At least in python, there are ways to create fat binaries anyway. And I have no doubt that this guy is very good at operations, as he seems to have not found problems with go's dependency management and even implicitly compares it favorably with those of the scripting languages.