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HN considers it one of the best talks for understanding how containers work from the ground up.
Liz Rice live-codes a minimal container runtime in a few lines of Go at GOTO Amsterdam 2018. She explains namespaces, control groups and what a host knows about its containers.
“Probably one of the most enlightening presentations I've seen in recent years, full-stop.” (HN, 2022)
Indeed a bit of an odd request, but I'm partial to Liz Rice's "Containers from Scratch" talk. Probably one of the most enlightening presentations I've seen in recent years, full-stop. [0] [this video]
1. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - James Mickens [link] 2. James Mickens on JavaScript - James Mickens [link] 3. Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice [this video] 4. 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing - Panelists: J. Richard Gott, Jim Holt, Lawrence Krauss, Charles Seife, Eve Silverstein. Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson [link] 5. 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? - Panelists: David Chalmers, Zohreh Davoudi, James Gates, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson [link] 6. Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley [link] 7. Concurrency Is Not Parallelism - Rob Pike [link]
Building containers from scratch, in a list of best talks
This will be a fun read, thanks! If you'd prefer to see the same ideas in video form, Liz Rice gave a pretty good prsentation on this same topic in 2018: [this video]
I loved this hands-on presentation Containers From Scratch by Liz Rice from few years ago [this video] . Today, Linux containers in (less than) 100 lines of shell by Michael Kerrisk was published [link] .
Hands-on live-coded talk building a container runtime from scratch
>I wish there were a tool that could just record everything [...] if you "know" everything, then notes serve no purpose. I guess the completeness of your proposed "auto-memorize-everything" solution depends on what style of notes a person writes. A lot of my notes are annotations or personal commentary that don't exist in the sources of the url text or video. Here's an example of that type of notes I often take... E.g. I found some links that explain how one can grok "Docker" by going through the learning exercise of re-inventing it from basic os features with homemade scripts. But I wrote my own personal notes (in "##")about the limitations of the explanations in the urls: ## these tutorials explain the verb (runtime) but not noun (artifacts of image file) [link] [this video] Because content cannot meta-analyze itself and enumerate all the ideas and concepts that are not embedded in its own text, it means a hypothetical indexing engine that converted the 2 links above to searchable data still would not retrieve the extra meta information I wrote. A lot of good notes are generated from your own brain. EDIT add to categorize different types of "notes" to aid discussion: (1) notes as memorization aid such as copying facts : a user writes a note that says "1 inch equals 25.4 millimeters" after seeing it on a webpage or something. So the "universal-record-and-index-everything" would help make these type of notes obsolete because one could just skip writing that note down and just reca
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