Comment by rmccue

17 days ago

> Docker’s journey reads like a startup trying to find product-market fit, except Docker already had product-market fit

Strongly disagree. The core Docker technology was an excellent product and as the article says, had a massive impact on the industry. But they never found a market for that technology at any price point that wasn't ~free, so they didn't have PMF. That technology also only took off in the way it did because it was free and open source.

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yencabulator  15 days ago

> The core Docker technology was an excellent product

Nah, the core Docker technology was an utter shitshow programmed by people without the relevant experience.

The Go IRC channel fielded repeated questions from Docker developers on how to unpack a compressed tarball from a streaming source.

At one point, Docker computed a hash of the files it downloaded, but never compared the hash to anything.

Docker was always below par for the space it wanted to be in. They had good marketing. The story has many commonalities with MongoDB.