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"virtually the entire container ecosystem"

An entire area of software that is completely unnecessary, but because the gods at Google gifted it to us, people have to pretend it's amazing

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Of course, this is nonsense and people use containers because they deliver real value, not because of Google marketing or name recognition (most don’t even know containers come from Google, but would likely attribute them to Docker). I’m not a container purist—eventually micro VMs and unikernels will eat a lot of their market share (that’s my prediction, anyway), but until we get there containers are invaluable and criticism like yours is devoid of substance.

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