"Regardless of the name, these cocaine clouds represent a new force in the cloud services market and show the trending acceptance for Linux containers."
If lots of people started emailing each other, talking on social networks, etc about it, would that cause a corresponding extra amount of filtering work for the likes of the NSA?
If so, wouldn't it rather screw things up if we got loads of these like, Linux Bomb, Android Plot, OSX Semtex, Windows Terror and so forth?
Surely NSA's filters analyse probabilities of occurrence of words in different context like they do with sex bombs, plot diagrams, "Semtex Films", "Terror Inc" and so on.
I'm curious why they chose 'Cocaine' as the name of the project. Naming a project after a substance illegal in most of the world is pretty bold. I'm looking forward to how they market this outside of Russia.
I wonder if it will become a trend to name technologies after taboo items? Imagine if a product called Dildo comes out and it is the best, most easy to use piece of software that ever existed. People would just have to use Dildo and get over the name. It could start a revolution.
I met a person named "Cocaine". It was actually the name his mother gave him. Also, he had reached adulthood and hadn't changed the name or started going by "Cain". De gustibus.
Do we have to discuss the name every time somebody chooses something controversial? Yes, you're right; it's a controversial choice. What else is there to say about it? We do this every time.
I think it's a legitimate topic to discuss. I think the name of an app or project is very important to its success.
I'm not offended over the name, but simply curious as to why they chose it. I personally wouldn't choose a controversial name if I wanted my app or project to be adopted by others.
There are also likely to be misunderstandings when communities start forming local Cocaine User Group chapters. There might be difficulty in getting space for meetings, and it will be interesting to see who might show up.
The docs state that they refer to the 0.9 version, while development is going on in the 0.11 branch, so the docs might be more of less out of date.
It seems that they have already implemented a large part of the Heroku infrastructure, including service discovery, auto balancing, cross-language events (using ZeroMQ) and that they are using it in production. All in all, an impressive feat!
It would be interesting to hear if anyone has experience running/using this outside of Yandex. The source code seems well written, though comments are quite sparse.
As Lazare remarked, it seems to directly compete with flynn.io. It is good to see that different high-level platforms are created based on docker. But it would be nice if these platforms would consist of modules (for example service discovery or messaging) that can be used without using the whole kitchen-sink. I am not sure if this is possible with cocaine.
BTW, the repo cocaine-core is quite a bit older (since 2011) than docker (since early 2013?). The docker-core readme states that docker support is "on it's way" so it is not clear how mature this is.
P.S. As adults and hackers, can we look beyond the name at the technology presented here?
I work for dotCloud (the company which started Docker), and I was at YaC (Yandex tech conference; the equivalent of Google I/O in Eastern Europe, if you will), and had the opportunity to discuss this with the Yandex team. Here are some extra info (that can easily be found on the web, so nothing sensitive here)
- They released the Docker plugin shortly before the conference [1]
- Yandex uses a distributed storage system called Elliptics [2] in many places, and they implemented an Elliptics backend for the Docker registry (the code is out there somewhere. They contributed the Elliptics backend to the Docker registry repo a couple of days ago [3].
- Cocaine is used to power various things inside Yandex, like the Yandex.Browser backend. This backend can sustain very high loads (10-100k req/s). I discussed with their Ops team, since they had specific questions about how to identify (and remove) potential performance bottlenecks in Docker networking stack. (Good news: you can achieve native network performance within containers with zero overhead!)
I'm considering writing Dockerfiles for Elliptics and Cocaine (as soon as I can find some spare time to do so...) but I would also be happy to help if other people want to do that (I'm actively monitoring the docker-user mailing list [4] so don't hesitate to get in touch through here).
Does anyone have any comments other than the name?
Seems like it competes directly against the soon-to-be-released Flynn[1] and Deis[2]. I'm tempted to poke at it a bit, but the documentation seems pretty scant. In theory an open source roll-your-own PaaS is pretty cool, right? Certainly Flynn got tons of attention and funding with a similar value proposition.
Speaking on behalf the the Deis team, it's nice to see another public PaaS getting an open source implementation. We're obviously bigger fans of the Heroku model than the GAE model, but that's the beauty of the new Docker PaaS world. Choice.
I just hope their Docker containers/images end up being portable. Some better docs wouldn't hurt either.
It's me or that beta.yandex.com search engine (that I've never heard before) is a complete ripped-off of google? I mean, I know it's a search engine. But in term of UI and design choices, the beta looks very similar.
Probably, it was natural design choice. Yandex has all the capabilities to invent and design without copying competitors. For example, they started selling contextual ads and launched maps project earlier than Google.
It's a teaser for their "Islands" project. In its core, it's something actually new (letting you interact with other sites without leaving search pages). However, in terms of presentation, it is indeed quite similar to google.
I actually really disagree. Google is incredibly simple, it's essentially a header, footer, an input field, three buttons and an image.. It's designed to be as simple (and thus attractive to a larger/broader base) as possible. Maybe I'm not being very insightful here, but it's like comparing two sports cars that are white and saying they're the same.
Actually, Google search results are more and more cryptic with each year pass. Now you don't get organic web results too often, instead you are awash with images and captions with weird padding.
It would be nice naming versions after drug names, like Android with their sweets. But it should go from weakest to strongest - whoever starts with cocaine straight away, does not leave themselves a lot of space
