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FooBarWidget on Jan 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Baseimage-docker, fat containers and “treating con...

If people really care about that then VMs wouldn't be so popular, and Docker wouldn't be either. Everybody would be using shared libraries in order to optimize away duplication as much as possible, instead of statically link things in order to make deployment easier.

regularfry on Jan 20, 2015 [–]

Yes, because it's totally impossible for the popularity of VMs and Docker to be driven by people who don't have that constraint.

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