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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 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.

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> 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.

The entire technology is a wrapper on setns().

And Dropbox is just curlftpfs

The whole computer is a wrapper around electricity

And humans are just a wrapper around oxygen, food, and water.

That’s just a wrapper around quarks for the most part…

I personally identify as a quark-gluon plasma held together by the strong force and a sheer lack a boundaries.

I could build that in a weekend

I misread this as a reply to the "humans are just a wrapper around..." comment and was like, that's a fun weekend.

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