[ianleeclark]

I'm really not the biggest fan of docker, but it seems like everything y'all did was wrong: improper image caching, so you wouldn't have to continually build the same base images for your services; putting databases in the container, instead of somewhere else; not using cgroups/docker fundamentals to restrict space on the container level; storing state (something) on disk within a container.

[bflesch]

You're right, there was a lot of PEBKAC involved. But it was not very straightforward to do the right thing in that situation.

The engineer in question was very excited about the technology, so we went with it. In the end it was a great learning on many levels, and I can really appreciate the kind of problems that AWS solves for you.