[PedroBatista]

I would say you can even go a looong way without any Docker at all.

And for the large majority of the companies/projects, if your project is so complex and heavy of resources that it doesn't fit on a modern laptop, the problem is not in the laptop, it's in the whole project and the culture and cargo-cult around "modern" software development.

[vlovich123]

Containers/VMs are a nice way to isolate away any machine configuration discrepancies. Conversely it does encourage the use of non hermetic and deterministic build systems which come with other issues too (eg speed differences surfacing race conditions in the build)

[elktown]

- "A single-binary app behind a load-balancer might scale to far beyond our needs, but the promotion/resume trade-off can't be justified."