Daily Archives: 2020-12-06

Article note: I'm getting a little "I told you so" out of this one. Docker's prominence always confused me because it was a bulky veneer over relatively straightforward OS features (possibly owing largely to Linux's slow-to-mature isolation features?). I'm still a little less than enthused about the level of adoption that containers have, because containers mostly only make sense if we've utterly failed at software, but...we have.

Article note: This is only the _new_ carpetbaggers, the publishers (see: Cengage) have been in that game for a long time. It's a market where the customers are two layers removed from the users (deanlets make the purchasing decisions, instructors tolerate, students suffer) so of course it's terrible and driven by risk-aversion. That said, _reliability_ and _consistency_ make the hand-rolled ed tech a problem - if students need a different platform for each class, you've created an unacceptable burden. If shit keeps breaking, it's a burden on the students.