Daily Archives: 2025-01-26

Article note: It's a _publishably rigorous_ incarnation of a frequently colloquially noted phenomenon. See IOT: "> Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future! > Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise." Or the older and more generic "Why do the sysadmins always dress like they're going camping? Because they're the people most acutely aware of how tenuous all of our technology is." bit. Many modern technologies seem to have this property.

Article note: Many of these annoyances are true, but are completely separate from the ones I hate on containers over. Containers indicate your software has been put together so sloppily that it is not deployable. Containers have weird failures in separation (permissions with docker is alarming). Containers (and also OP's preferred VMs which at least avoids the separation problem) are hauling around a whole fucking Linux distribution per binary, which is an absurd waste of space and bandwidth.