Containers
topic on 7 shows · 12 statements across 11 episodes
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12 statements about Containers, every show
Murdock: Containers are not safe for AI tools and require sandboxes
“Containers aren't safe. You need sandboxes. This is why. The big container company, Docker said, Hey, themselves said containers aren't safe. You better put in a sandbox.”
Aggarwal: In 2015, a16z doubted rapid container adoption while Sequoia believed
“And I would tell you half the investors at that time, actually I would name it even Anderson, did not believe in 2015. I know Sequoia was a big believer that container would become mainstream that quick, right?”
Weichel: Dev environments need more capabilities than standard containers provide
“For dev environments, you also want a little bit more than containers, because containers really up to run applications, and dev containers aren't your off-the-mill application, right?”
Hykes: Most developers still code on laptops due to tooling failures
“Most people don't develop in a container still, right? They just develop on their laptop. That's just a failure of tooling.”
Kozlov: Cloudflare is working on Durable Object-enabled containers
“Well, the thing that we hinted at, I mean, we are working on it and I think that the big unlock is going to be It's not either or, it's a both, and the thing that we're really excited about that maybe is the thing that I'll leave it to user for is durable obje…”
Podjarny: Containers are the evolution of the app, not the VM
“The industry has been seeing containers as the evolution of the VM. And they've been trying to retrofit VM patching practices onto containers while we saw containers as the evolution of the app.”
Levinson: Containerization did not impact global trade until the 1980s
“And so this innovation, the container that had really come about in the fifties started to make a substantial difference in the world economy in the 19 eighties when we had the birth of modern supply chains.”
Cockcroft: Containers are one of the fastest enterprise tech adoptions
“Containers came along really over the last two years and one of the fastest takeovers of enterprise computing we've ever seen. It's quite, quite remarkable how quickly they were able to colonize the enterprise space.”
Levine: Containers outperform virtual machines by standardizing on Linux
“Containers use far less compute resources there. You know, it used to be where I had to support Windows and Linux on a machine, therefore virtual machines are important. Now it's only Linux on both sides. Linux as the base operating system and running within t…”
Chris Dixon: Containers render virtual machines obsolete, though transition takes time
“It seems like one of these, it's a rare thing where it just seems like it's a no-brainer, dramatic improvement over virtual machines, and they're just, VMs are over. . I mean, it's gonna take a while.”
Deeter: New infrastructure businesses will center on container management at scale
“And so, as you think about where we go from here, specifically around the serverless world, the future is about managing these containers at scale. And at first, what was about the fundamentals of what is a container and how can these work together has very mu…”
Schreiber: Getting a container freight quote takes an average of three days
“So, believe it or not, when you call up a big freight forwarding company, and you say, I want to bring a container From Shanghai to, you know, wherever it is, Cincinnati or San Diego you're gonna wait an average of three days just for a price quote.”