[erlang-questions] Programming Erlang: Chap 18, Websockets

Marco Molteni marco.molteni@REDACTED
Tue Jun 27 20:25:19 CEST 2017


On 27 Jun 2017, at 09:00, <ok@REDACTED> <ok@REDACTED> wrote:

> As I understand it, this is one of the driving forces behind
> the application = VM approach using Docker and the like:
> make a VM containing the things your application needs and
> as little else as you can manage, and then never change it.
> If you want a new version of the application, make a new VM.

This sounds good on the surface (the charm of Docker).

Then one realises that the container is exposed to a network, and so open to attack.

Then one understand that the less worse approach is to keep updating everything and fixing what breaks.

marco


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