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Docker is an open platform for distributed applications. Docker allows for standardized container runtimes and will be an important piece of infrastructure for many years to come. But if you are new to Docker, the technology can be confusing and intimidating.

What is a container? Why do I want to put my application in a container? Today’s guest Prakhar Srivastav wrote a long tutorial explaining the fundamentals of Docker. Prakhar explains why Docker is useful, how Docker works, and how you can get started.

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Kubernetes has been a focus of several previous shows on Software Engineering Daily. The architecture and management of our distributed systems have changed, and widespread adoption of containers and container management systems is just beginning.

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Elixir is a programming language built on top of the Erlang virtual machine. Elixir allows metaprogramming, polymorphism, and a web framework called Phoenix that has drawn positive comparisons to Ruby on Rails.

Jose Valim is today’s guest. He built Elixir to augment a language that he loved–Erlang. On Software Engineering Daily, we interviewed Joe Armstrong, the creator of Erlang, which was a very popular show–I encourage any listeners who are fans of Erlang to check it out. Erlang was built with concurrency in mind, and it has been rising in popularity as more of our applications are written to be distributed. In today’s episode we will discuss what Jose is building on top of Erlang.

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In this episode, Nadia describes the origins of open-source in the Free software movement, its rise to popularity, and today’s golden era where mainstream and popular technologies like React, Spark and Docker are all open source projects.

Yet there are several serious issues that threaten the foundation upon which the current open-source renaissance is happening. Nadia discusses what these are, and how to resolve these issues so that we can continue to have a vibrant ecosystem for developers.

Thank you to Nadia Eghbal for coming on the show and for standing up for open source software.

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Git is the most popular version control system. If you have been programming for less than a decade, it’s likely that you haven’t used any other method of version control. The git workflow of a software team defines how that team collaborates, builds, and ships software.

Tim Pettersen is a developer advocate at Atlassian, where he has been building software around git for many years. He joins us on today’s episode to talk about strategies for git–including branching, merging, continuous integration, and software as a service.

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Cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft provide both infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. Infrastructure as a service gives developers access to virtual machines, servers, and network infrastructure. Platform as a service is the software that runs on top of that infrastructure as a service–this includes things like Amazon DynamoDB, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, and Google App Engine.

OpenStack is an open-source cloud operating system. Today’s guest is John Purrier, a founder of OpenStack and the CTO of Automic Software.

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Software developers have been socializing on chat rooms for decades. In the nineties, we began using IRC and AOL instant messenger. In the early 2000s, we turned to Google Hangouts and Yammer. Today, we are using modern apps like Slack and Hipchat.

On today’s show, we take a deep dive into Gitter, the chat client specifically designed for developers. Our guests are Mike Bartlett and Andrew Newdigate, the creators of Gitter. Gitter is a highly scalable, real time social application for developers to talk about writing their software. This is a great episode that spans topics like front end development, back end distributed systems, how to compete with Slack, and how to scale a chat room to tens of thousands of active users.

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Ruby on Rails has had the most commits made by its creator, David Heinemeier Hansson. The next most frequent contributor to Rails is Aaron Patterson, our guest on today’s episode of Software Engineering Daily. Topics discussed in today’s episode include Ruby relative to JavaScript, Rails relative to Linux, and DHH relative to Tenderlove.

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You keep hearing about containers, and maybe you have even used Docker in production. Now, it’s time to move beyond Docker. In today’s episode of Software Engineering Daily, Steve Pousty talks about OpenShift, a platform from RedHat that helps engineers leverage the power of containers and the dev ops harmony of microservices.

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Steve Pousty is a Developer Advocate (and PaaS Dust Spreader) at Red Hat.

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In this episode, Jeff and Derrick sit down to discuss the state of tech journalism, and how it has kept up with the rapid pace of technology innovation. Additionally, they discuss the evolution of the “big data” stack and where it is headed. The conversation focuses in on Apache Mesos and Mesosphere, the company building the Datacenter Operating System (DCOS).

Derrick Harris is a long time tech journalist, having worked at GigaOm and Fortune as a writer covering tech topics. He currently works at Mesosphere, where he is a tech evangelist.

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