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Lessons from an airport café chat with Docker’s cofounder (KubeCon Paris)
We didn’t plan to record anything. Last day of KubeCon Paris, we ran into Solomon Hykes (cofounder of Docker, now building Dagger) and ended up talking reliability, incidents, and pipelines in an airport café before his flight.
Here are a few lessons he shared that stuck with me:
* **Adoption always runs ahead of readiness.** Dockerfile was a hack. Teams still pushed it to prod. The team spent years catching up. If your platform is useful, users will take it further than you expect.
* **Incidents define the culture.** He told the story of a bug plus an AWS outage that routed traffic to the wrong apps for minutes. T…