alt Hacker Newsthe real trick was making "ship your machine" sound like best practice and ten years later we r doing the same thing with ai "it works in my notebook" jst became "containerize the notebook and call it a pipeline" the abstraction always wins because fixing the actual problem is just too hard.
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Bratmon • yesterday at 8:12 PM
I mean, walking through a door is easier than tearing down a wall, walking through it, and rebuilding the wall. That doesn't mean the latter is a good idea.
goodpoint • yesterday at 5:39 PM
...while completely forgetting about security
> fixing the actual problem is just too hard.
I think it’s laziness, not difficulty. That’s not meant to be snide or glib: I think gaining expertise in how to package and deploy non-containerized applications isn’t difficult or unattainable for most engineers; rather, it’s tedious and specialized work to gain that expertise, and Docker allowed much of the field to skip doing it.
That’s not good or bad per se, but I do think it’s different from “pre-container deployment was hard”. Pre-container deployment was neglected and not widely recognized as a specialty that needed to be cultivated, so most shops sucked at it. That’s not the same as “hard”.