The first episode of Outliers in Software and Technology is an interview with software expert Jam Risser. Jam is kind of a devops, architecture, and backend development savant. He's incredibly passionate about the subject area of "back-end web development" in general. Might sound boring to most of us, but Jam recognizes its importance and fascinating aspects.

Most importantly, Jam knows Docker. This episode is primarily an interview covering why Docker is so important, what the business advantages are, and how it works. If you still don't exactly know what Docker is or does, this interview should solve that. Enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction, Jam Risser and Docker4:25 - We're at the very beginning of Computer Science10:10 - Scalability, mainframes, and Computer Science history18:00 - Containers, VMWare, and intro to Docker28:16 - What problem(s) does Docker really solve? What is Docker?38:20 - How horizontal scaling stopped the GroupThreads servers from crashing...41:00 - Business benefits of Docker covered at executive level50:32 - Docker helps in recreating bugs..57:35 - Advantages of Docker over VMWare1:00:03 - Rancher and orchestration platforms..1:17:00 - Spot instances

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