Containers will not fix your broken culture, and other hard truths
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Claim: containers do not fix organizational culture or remove Conway’s law. Describes a small streaming site that ran Docker in production in October 2013 and used Docker across the entire request path, but still has handoffs, misaligned incentives, and recurring outages because teams prioritize features or SLAs differently. Argues that industrial job schedulers and container platforms alone don’t remove human handoffs and that tooling without aligned incentives keeps the wall of confusion intact.
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