Docker in the New York Times Newsroom
summary
New York Times Interactive News runs 300+ small, independent apps on AWS using Docker images, Drone CI, and an autoscaling strategy that jumps from a few instances to 20–30 nodes for big stories; legacy Rails and Python stacks get containerized to avoid 40‑minute AMI rebuilds; service discovery uses etcd with custom tools Remora and Promise, configuration encrypted with context, and the approach keeps apps deployable and often restores performance after incidents like the viral dialect quiz.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:58Newsroom team structure
- 6:01Interactive news projects
- 8:44Transitioning to Docker
- 12:41Advantages of Docker
- 14:29Scaling and infrastructure
- 19:23Heterogeneous technologies
- 25:26Production solutions
- 30:13Future goals
- 31:10Q&A session
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