<story><title>Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/steve-singh-stepping-down-as-docker-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>windexh8er</author><text>I worked for Docker under Steve. Steve is a nice guy, but a horrible CEO for any current tech company. When I left Docker I told HR how disappointed I was in his response as a CEO with regard to recent layoffs. He went on and on about how this was about saving money to get to profitability in 2019 and he blamed himself, as he should have for missing. But then he didn&amp;#x27;t actually take any responsibility for his actions. He didn&amp;#x27;t take a pay cut, he had just hired his buddy Neil Charney for marketing and that guy should exit stage left right behind Steve.  There&amp;#x27;s lots of leadership at Docker that&amp;#x27;s bad and Docker is very misdirected internally. For an entire quarter they kept telling us Microsoft was the path forward. Except most native Windows shops aren&amp;#x27;t doing a ton of containers. And if they are they&amp;#x27;re moving to Azure because of the credits. Then Microsoft kind of sort of vanished from the push. And it was kind of sort of IoT - but Docker Enterprise doesn&amp;#x27;t run on ARM and they were so far behind.  Docker has bad leadership and nobody is steering the ship towards a destination, unfortunately.&lt;p&gt;One last tidbit about Steve. Steve made his fortune off Concur being sold to Amex. So Docker, obviously, had to use Concur internally. We were told not to complain about Concur in Slack ever so as Steve would never see it. Well Steve, Concur is a flaming pile of garbage compared to modern alternatives. And that was where Steve was leading Docker. There are a lot of really good people left at Docker. Get rid of Steve, get rid of Steve&amp;#x27;s buddies, get rid of the sales leadership and circle back up with the product the team they have can build.  I think Steve&amp;#x27;s departure implies he knew he&amp;#x27;d never hit his goal of profitability this year. Bon voyage Steve! Hopefully it&amp;#x27;s not too late for Docker.</text></comment>
<story><title>Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/steve-singh-stepping-down-as-docker-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nullwasamistake</author><text>IMO docker is the Myspace of containers.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s so many bugs I&amp;#x27;ve just stopped caring. Like many devs, I have a bash alias to blow everything away when the daemon gets funky. And it behaves differently enough between platforms that, at least at my company, we&amp;#x27;ve given up on running the same containers between different OS.&lt;p&gt;I really think the endgame will be a VM based container system backwards compatible with docker. At VM level it&amp;#x27;s far easier to deal with kernel level incompatibility. Not to mention the constant security bugs that come from sharing a kernel. Somewhat ironically MS is already doing this in a way by hosting a Linux kernel in a VM for their docker implementation. They&amp;#x27;re only a step away from launching a kernel for each container.&lt;p&gt;With how cheap ram is these days, sharing a kernel is pointless. You save maybe 50mb of ram per container in return  for maddening implementation complexity and worse performance</text></comment>