Solomon Hykes on Docker, Dagger, and the Future of DevOps

Platform Engineering Podcast

In this episode, Solomon Hykes discusses the journey from Docker's inception to its widespread adoption, the challenges faced in open-source development, and his current work with Dagger. He explains how Dagger aims to revolutionize continuous integration by making pipelines more modular and efficient, addressing the "push and pray" problem in software development. Hykes also shares insights on the evolution of DevOps, the complexities of open-source business models, and his vision for the future of software development workflows.

Guest: Solomon Hykes, Co-founder of Docker and Dagger

Solomon Hykes is the co-founder and CEO of Dagger.io, the first programmable CI/CD engine. Before that, he was the co-founder of Docker, where he served for 10 years as CEO then CTO, and a founding member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee. Solomon grew up in France, and now lives in San Francisco.

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• Firecracker
• Cloudflare
• Fastly
• WebAssembly
• Heroku
• Vercel
• Netlify
• Ansible
• Bazel
• Nix
• Jenkins
• Haskell
• Pre-commit
• Kubesimplify
• Dagger Workshop with Solomon Hykes: Hands-On Tutorial & Community Collaboration