Docker vs Sublime Text: Which is a better fit?

Mohit A.: Hi, this is Mohit. I work as a DevOps consultant in a IT software company, which size of this company is around 1 lakh to 1.5 lakh employees. And we work with Docker and I would rate Docker as five star. We working with the AWS Lambda and there was no other container, as such, when we were working with some of the clients. They were using the old way of deploying directly into the servers, but Docker really helped a lot when we introduced Docker to convert those application into container based applications and deployment, so it was quite easy working with Docker. Multiple clients were facing multiple issues like the stability issues when we were deploying applications to different servers. The high availability, the server or application goes down, then there was no backup or user was facing issues with the application downtime. With the introduction of Docker, we could sustain that. We could run same application, multiple containers so that we have a high availability if any container goes down, the other containers was up. And scaling of the application, so that was another challenge with working without Docker containers. Because whenever an application needs more space, more memory, server you can't just increase in one day or one night. But Docker, you can have the scaling capabilities, horizontal scaling, where you can have multiple containers running for the same application. These two challenges were fixed with the help of Docker applications? Yes. It was quite easy. Docker comes with a lot of features. You just need to write a Docker file and then you can just create a image and deploy it. It's very easy, I think, rather than even deploying application onto servers, then you have to look into multiple configurations and even have to do some custom scripting, but in the Docker, you are good. It comes with a lot of features where you can just develop and deploy applications in the container. Moreover, it is always dependent. You can have same application running in Android container or Apple based, iOS based container running, or any platform you can just create image and deploy it. That's quite easy to work with Docker. Yes. I would highly recommend Docker to be used, especially when you are working in microservices based applications. That's the whole beauty of Docker that you can have applications contained in a smaller size and you can have independent applications running in multiple containers. And when there is a change in any feature announcements on anything you want to change, so you can just change in that particular module of that application running in a different container and then you don't need to touch whole entire code. I would really recommend Docker for the applications which can be containerized and where we have to deploy in multiple servers or operating systems. This is really good.

Patrick: Hi, I'm Patrick, and I work in customer support with Native Instruments. Our company is about 250 employees, and I would rate Sublime Text five out of five. Prior to using Sublime Text, I considered a couple other text editors. There's just the standard Windows Notepad that I used, and then there was a scripting app that people use to script with JavaScript. I can't remember the name of it, but Sublime Text was basically one of my first entries, and I found it to be just super useful and I've used it in both text and basic scripting languages. I chose Sublime Text because it was just easy to use. It's very easily accessible to find all the files that you were previously using and adding different scripting languages to Sublime until it would actually come up and tell you about the errors was really easy, and it came with a lot that were pre-installed also. So for me and everything that I needed to do, which is nothing too intensive on the scripting side but a lot of note-taking and that sort of thing, like Sublime Text, it just gets everything right. It's really easy workflow. Integrating into my workflow, Sublime Text was really easy actually because I'm already using a different app, which is actually a little bit more cumbersome, which is the Windows Notes app. And using Sublime Text, I had all the different tabs for all the different notes I had open, and it easily just saves my document based upon the first line of text, which I like. And yeah, out the gate, it was a very easy to use app for texting. So anybody that's using Sublime Text ... or anybody that isn't using Sublime Text or maybe is just in the market for a text editing app, I definitely think Sublime Text is a great choice. I would suggest it to my friends and anybody else because it's just so easy to use and out the gate, whether you're an expert scripter or you're just somebody that just needs to take notes, it handles both of those things in a really seamless kind of effortless way, and it's easy to use and it's free. So, I definitely suggest it.