In this podcast, Solomon Hykes of Docker talks to The New Stack about the need for greater public access to programming skills and tools—part of what he refers to as a democratization of the internet. Plumbing the internet as a distributed programming utility has a huge potential to unlock innovation. Hykes talks about how his industry has otherwise failed to really achieve these accessibility goals so far, but points out that he believes Docker, and the tools they are producing, are a small step in the right direction. He believes that Docker creates a foundational technology that could enable a new change. Later, he addresses criticisms of Docker’s role in infrastructure, Docker’s approach to building new tools, and finding common frameworks to integrate all your components.

Solomon Hykes is the founder, CTO and Chief Architect of Docker and the creator of the Docker open source initiative. In his role at Docker, he is focused on building a platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship, run and orchestrate distributed applications. A Forbes 30 under 30 and YCombinator alumni, Solomon led dotCloud as CEO through five years of fundraising, business operations and product launches before focusing entirely on Docker. Prior to dotCloud, Solomon held engineering, IT infrastructure management and software development roles at CEIS and SmartJog.

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