Everyone has heard of Docker, but what is a container? Is it really a "lightweight VM"? In this talk we'll dispel the magic and see what a containers really are by writing one in a few dozen lines of Go code.
At this talk you'll learn about namespaces and cgroups, and how they are used to create containers. You don't necessarily need to know Go for this talk to be of interest, but we assume you are familiar with some basic Linux commands like ls and ps.
Liz Rice is the cofounder and CEO of Microscaling Systems. Liz has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from her years spent working on network protocols and distributed systems and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not building startups and writing code, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London.
