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Discussion on: Let's talk about Docker

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Madison Swain-Bowden

What a fascinating experience. It's always wild to me when the immediate reaction to "this tool is frustrating to use and I don't like it" is "oh you must be a junior". In a lot of cases, the reason I don't like a tool is because I've spent years being shackled to it!! I'm very familiar with the tool and all the reasons it makes my life difficult! And I agree, I think much of that reaction is rooted in sexism. It's an echo of the undercurrent that exists in the tech community that women simply do not know what they're talking about and have to constantly prove that they do.

I do consider myself a Docker lover, but I really appreciate your perspective. Not everyone wants to be tinkering around with Linux environments constantly just to set up a simple application. I feel like the best Docker experience you can have is when someone else makes the image for you haha. If you have to make an image yourself, especially as a junior dev like in the scenarios you describe, you could be in for a very bad time.

That said, I'd really love to hear some of the container tools/alternatives that were shared with you! I'd be interested to check out some other way of tackling this problem 😄

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JTK

I have a horrific backlog on that tweet I never expected that much attention and kept expecting it to die down and so never muted, RIP my notifications. ANYWAY, I need to dig back through all the traffic and find everything people said, things that pop out were alternates I'd never heard of, other drivers for Docker storage, but I am happy to DM you a more concise list when I have a chance to pore through all the content on that tweet lol. Also thank you for your comment, and I truly feel you on the "yes I hate it because I have had to work with it so long" thing, although I am truly as I said glad other people aren't tormented by Docker like me