The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
I recently had a similar discussion with people using npm for building a CSS framework library. I tried to explain the concept of getting a pre-downloaded tarball and using &quot;make&quot; (or similar) to produce target artifacts from source files in a deterministic, repeatable and reliable manner, without relying on any third-party servers being available and without pulling in dependencies that might have changed.<p>It seems the concept was entirely alien to programmers younger than me.