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		lholden on May 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Docker - Way better than a VM Yes it's written in go... though Docker could have been written to the same effect in something else (Haskell or whatever). If there were a 'secret sauce' I'd say it's the kernel features it takes advantage of (cgroup, lxc, kernel namespaces, aufs, etc). :)

primitur on May 19, 2013 [–]

You're right about that! What I'm enjoying, perhaps a little meta-, is how easily that swell soup of jewels is ground up into a fine sonic-screwdriver of a tool. Seems to me right now, I've got yet another reason to enjoy the golang experience ..

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