No. 036 · 2013 · San Francisco

Docker

A five-minute lightning talk ended 'works on my machine'.

Shipped your laptop

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Make my startup a legend
  1. 1 2013. A hosting startup, going nowhere.
  2. 2 Devs and ops hate each other.
  3. 3 The insight: shipping containers.
  4. 4 Five-minute lightning talk at PyCon.
  5. 5 The room loses its mind.
  6. 6 They throw out the old company.
  7. 7 Every server now runs containers.
  8. 8 Then ship your machine.
Founders
Solomon Hykes, with Kamel Founadi and Sebastien Pahl
Founded
2008, Paris, as dotCloud
What they do
Software containers.

The story

Hosting startup dotCloud was struggling when Hykes showed its container tool in a five-minute talk at PyCon in 2013. Developers jumped on it, the company renamed itself Docker, and containers became standard practice.