Building a Dagger - A Great Application Dag Compiler
Bildket is an incredible low level build system. It's vastly superior to almost anything else out there because it's low level, and its so its it can focus and specialize. We're taking one step further in saying it's so powerful that the name is wrong. You know, i don'tknow what it should be called. It's not just for built. It's a generic, covergial machine for da computation. That's how we use it. And it turns out, a great application dag computation. In other words, writing your programme like a dag and running it like a dag is pipe lints. Anything related to c i c d will always be better when
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In today’s episode, Gerhard is talking to Sam Alba, Docker’s first employee, and Solomon Hykes, the Docker co-founder. Together with Andrea Luzzardi, they are the creators of Dagger, a universal deployment engine that trades YAML for CUE, and uses Buildkit as the runtime.
Why? Because we should stop rewriting the same application deployment logic in scripts, makefiles or continuous delivery configuration. That’s right, this is the YAML vaccine that we have all been waiting for.
Gerhard believes that one day, Dagger will become just as meaningful for application delivery, as Docker is today for application code.
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