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by 827a 241 days ago
Yeah; IMO Docker was our last universal improvement to productivity, in 2013, and very little we've invented since then can be said to have had such a wide-ranging positive impact, with such few drawbacks. Some systems are helpful for some companies, but then try to get applied to other companies where they don't make sense and things fall apart or productivity suffers. Cloudflare and others are trying to make v8 isolates a thing, and while they are awesome for some workloads, people want them to be the "next docker", and they aren't.

The model "give me docker image, we put it on internet" is staggeringly powerful. It'll probably still be the most OP way to host applications in 2040.
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hadlock 241 days ago
Docker + IaC* for me; git ops, immutable servers, immutable code, immutable config, (nearly) immutable infrastructure means I haven't had to drop to the command line on a server since 2015. If something is wrong you restart the container, if that doesn't work you restart the host it's running on. The "downside" to this is my "admin" shell skills outside of personal dev laptop commands have gotten rusty.

*Terraform, imo, released in ~2014

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mystifyingpoi 241 days ago
> If something is wrong you restart the container, if that doesn't work you restart the host it's running on

Haha, lucky you. If only world was this beautiful :) I regularly shell into Kubernetes nodes to debug memory leaks from non-limited pods, or to check some strange network issues.

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asdff 240 days ago
Even better than docker: just run some scripts on the machine.
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