# 373: Docker! Docker! Docker!

- Show: [Embedded.fm](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm)
- Published: 2021-05-13
- Length: 1h 14m
- Episode: 373
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2021-05-13-373-docker-docker-docker
- Listen: https://embedded.fm/episodes/373

## Summary

Elecia White and Christopher White discuss the challenges of billing hourly work during long waits for code execution, and White's recent deep dive into Docker to manage complex development environments like TensorFlow. They also reflect on the Embedded.fm podcast's plateaued growth, strategies for promoting STEAM diversity, and the high production standards White's husband set for her upcoming conference talk on map files. Finally, White details her search for a new, quiet Windows laptop to replace her aging Dell.

## Chapters

- [0:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2021-05-13-373-docker-docker-docker#t=6) Introduction and Embedded Online Conference
- [4:26](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2021-05-13-373-docker-docker-docker#t=266) Billing Hourly Work and Waiting for Code
- [11:57](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2021-05-13-373-docker-docker-docker#t=717) Docker vs. Virtualenv and Conda
- [39:57](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2021-05-13-373-docker-docker-docker#t=2397) Podcast Growth and STEAM Diversity Goals
- [52:14](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2021-05-13-373-docker-docker-docker#t=3134) Conference Talk Production and Map Files
- [1:06:26](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2021-05-13-373-docker-docker-docker#t=3986) Laptop Search and Hardware Woes

## Topics

- [Embedded firmware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/embedded-firmware)
- [Pricing, margins & unit economics](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/pricing-and-unit-economics)
- [Marketing & brand](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/marketing-and-brand)
- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)
- [Creator business](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/creator-business)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Docker (tool)
- Virtualenv (tool)
- Conda (tool)
- TensorFlow (tool)
- NVIDIA (company)
- Embedded Online Conference (other)
- Fitbit (company)
- Google Collab (tool)
- AWS (company)
- ROS (tool)
- Logic (tool)
- Final Cut (tool)
- Dell XPS 17 (product)
- Lenovo (company)
- MacBook Pro (product)
- M1 Mac (product)
- Code Composer (tool)
- VirtualBox (tool)
- Parallels (tool)

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- [Replicable Build Environments for the Win](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-pragmatic-embedded-podcast/2021-03-16-replicable-build-environments-for-the-win) (The Pragmatic Embedded Podcast)
- [Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2021-09-14-docker-inc-an-early-epitaph) (Oxide and Friends)
- [2024 christmas special](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-pragmatic-embedded-podcast/2024-12-29-2024-christmas-special) (The Pragmatic Embedded Podcast)
- [Documentation as Code: A chat with Alasdair Allan from Raspberry Pi](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-electromaker-show/2022-07-21-documentation-as-code-a-chat-with-alasdair-allan-from-raspberry-pi) (The Electromaker Show)
- [Buzzword Bingo (or: which modern technologies make sense for embedded?)](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-pragmatic-embedded-podcast/2024-11-13-buzzword-bingo-or-which-modern-technologies-make-sense-for-embedded) (The Pragmatic Embedded Podcast)

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