Docker, Inc.’s rise in the industry is an impressive one, if you ask Adrian Cockcroft, technology fellow at Battery Ventures. In an interview with theCUBE at DockerCon, he emphasized this growth. “What I think is particularly interesting with the Docker ecosystem is the speed it’s moving,” he said, “and that’s really unprecedented. Typically, these kinds of technologies take years to get from an idea to be something that enterprises have gone for.”

Not only has Docker seen rapid adoption, the company has also fought hard to become user-friendly and ready for enterprise production. “It’s starting to mature to the point where you can build standard practices and tooling around everything,” he said. “And I think during the second half of this year you’ll start to see many more big enterprises start to adopt and really roll things out, and in 2016 it’s going to be pretty mature, very well standardized.”

But it’s only taken a few years to get to that point. “That’s a pretty rapid move for software in the enterprise space.”

The trend toward microservices

Cockcroft also talked about the trend toward microservices and where he sees it fitting into the industry. “It’s a tactic for achieving a goal, and the goal is speeding up development with large teams,” he said. “If you have a small team, you build a service. They can talk to each other; they can figure out who broke what. As your team gets bigger, you start to have developers and operations and testing all starting to collide, and it gets harder and harder to get a build done …. That’s the point at which you break things into microservices.”

This is especially relevant for large, established companies. “The problem that most big companies have right now is they’re moving too slow,” Cockcroft said. “The problem isn’t that they’re spending a little bit more money on a particular service; the problem is that they are releasing the thing once a quarter, and their competitor’s doing it 10 times a day. So in order to get to continuous delivery, you have to break it into chunks that are manageable.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of DockerCon.

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