Following the first thing they google without actually understanding what's involved, all the way to handing over money sounds about what I expect from someone who thinks Docker is a viable platform to use for anything worth handing over money for.
- Decision maker googles and finds there's this Docker company that will solve their problems. Heard good buzz about Docker in the news, how open it is, and how many companies use it.
- Decision maker to engineer: "Hey can we use Docker software to solve problem X"
- Engineer: "Sure, the software is actually called Moby now though"
- Decision maker: "Meh, I don't care what it's called, I just want problem X solved. Docker solves it?"
- Engineer: "Yeah I guess"
- Decision maker: "Ok here's your budget. Pay Docker to solve problem X."
- Engineer: "Alright"
What fucking problem does Docker solve that a "decision maker" can understand it enough to get a result telling them to use Docker, yet s/he can't understand the concept of "open core" software.
Docker's status seems entirely driven by me-too cool kids cargo-culting the bejeezus out of it because they heard it can run their nodejs react app better.
If you work for a company where your described situation could happen, fucking leave.
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- Boss: here's the business-level problem I want solved
- Engineers: here's what we think it'll take to do it, and the technical path forward
- Boss: either (1) cool, what can I can do to help you get started? or (2) yikes, that's a bigger problem than I thought. What's the 80% solution?