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Opinion
Dockerfile was a 2013 stopgap and Compose was a cloned prototype
“Docker file was something we designed as a stopgap prototype. Thinking, oh, we'll clean this up later in, in 2013. You know, it's been more than 10 years. Compose was a clone of a clone that we acquired into the team and, like, stitched on top, and then as soo…”
Solomon Hykes Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 12:03 [AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes
Opinion
Firshman: Building Fig and Docker Compose in Python was a mistake
“We used Python, which was a big mistake, where Python's really hard to get booting up fast, because you have to load up the whole Python runtime before it can run anything.”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 2:54 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
Disclosure
Modal sandboxes support multi-container sidecar pods
“So actually, if you want Docker Compose our sandboxes now support this thing called Sidecarves. So you can, a sandbox is actually a pod of containers, and you can run multiple containers in a sandbox.”
Akshat Bubna Jul 8, 2026 ▶ 28:19 The Future of AI Infra: from Kubernetes to Agent Sandboxes — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
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