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Raghuram: No Major Tech Company Was Built From Docker or Kubernetes
“Now, the interesting thing is the industry, nobody made money on either Docker or Kubernetes. I mean, there were some startups, right? But really, there was no big company that was created out of that.”
Raghu Raghuram Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 3:52 From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
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Humble: Microservices and Kubernetes do not guarantee high IT performance
“Implementing those technologies does not give you those outcomes we talked about. We actually looked at people doing mainframe stuff. You can achieve these results with mainframes. Equally, you can use the, you know, Kubernetes and, you know, Docker and micros…”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:29 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
Insight
Appenzeller: Enterprises Prefer Kubernetes Abstractions Over Full Cloud Stacks for AI
“We're seeing more and more enterprises that are actually comfortable with just building on top of a simple Kubernetes abstraction or something. And basically, you know, cherry pick a couple of snowflake or database type services on the side that help them comp…”
Guido Appenzeller May 24, 2025 ▶ 4:29 Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
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Rogers: Software projects need neutral governance to become industry standards
“Google just gave Kubernetes over to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. And that's like, you know, an up and coming project. It's getting lots of contributors and lots of new adoption. And that was just because, like, for it to be a de facto standard, it ne…”
Michael Rogers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:41 a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
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