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I don't agree with that I don't feel like I'm underpaid or overpaid, however, I know of great unjust between gender and ethnicity and all I want is equality for all.

Thanks for the resources, I will for sure be following these. My dream is that one day I can do something similar to `docker-compose scale db=5` and have a database that is highly available.

I would love to see approaches similar to the attempt for elasticsearch for all major databases as out of the box highly available, that would make me sleep a lot better at night. For the mean time I'm just going to manage my databases traditionally (through a service or run by myself). It seems like its really a problem that needs to be solved, other than that I'm a huge fan of these infrastructure approaches.

Maybe I'm missing the right articles or I'm thinking about this the wrong way, but I can't seem to find any resources on how people run databases in these kinds of infrastructure stacks. I mean I have no problem understanding how I can deploy my 12 factor application on kubernetes for example and load balance to those, but persistence seems to be missing. Do people just use Amazons/Compose/etc Database offerings and don't worry about it themselves?

Couldn't agree more. Code is highly dimensional while our text editors are two dimensional at best. In case you don't know these talks I think you will enjoy The Future of Programming and Inventing on Principle both by Bret Victor.

I somehow felt like the docker team was closer with the Rancher team, so I thought docker might acquire Rancher at some point. I think this is a move to produce revenue in the future while Rancher is yet another open source project to monetize.

I've recently been at an event where Richard Stallman was promoting this. I'm pretty sure it's part of the GNU Project.

Neat. Really like the approach.

Is anyone else noticing the distracting optical illusion in the logo when reading the first paragraph on the landing page? If I am not the only one, someone should find a way to fix it.

I've missed that, thanks! Then it totally makes sense since it's their own platform.

Neat. I really liked Ubuntu One. However, if they seek to receive contributions I think GitHub would give them more exposure than launchpad, from what I can tell the history is not preserved (probably with good reasons) so the switch from bazaar would not have been painful.

I agree, before you start implementing all these changes you should probably also spot the time consuming parts of your software using a profiler. Otherwise you might be making a bad trade-off. My software engineering professor always used to say: "Never start optimizing before you have measured [using a profiler]."

I've actually found JRuby to be very handy when it comes to packaging. Using warbler I can generate a jar file and then using the javapackager I can create self contained packages for all the major platforms/package managers: windows (.exe/.msi), linux (.rpm, .deb), osx (.dmg). Way more painless than packaging a ruby runtime. I've tried traveling ruby, but have not had the same seamless experience. Especially when it comes to multiple platforms. However, packaging with java, jruby and my application usually turn out to be quite large. Around 80Mb for a CLI and the startup time for short running programs like CLIs using JRuby can be quite long.

Thanks, we want all the feedback we can get! :)