Yeah, I would agree there's quite a disconnect between "rubber hits the road" and the "Gospel of Docker".

This was magnified when I attended Dockercon in Austin last year. As a very small team that has used Docker (and ECS) to solve some problems, I was excited to learn more. It became quickly apparent that I was at the wrong conference for that: it felt like an enterprise vendor party where everyone was passing around cups of kool-aid.

Yeah the kool-aid stuff is really annoying. Btw have you checked out the details of systemd slices? I somehow thought it's nearly the same as docker, just without the hype. Just practical technology on the level it's supposed to be.

Well Linux is quite a monolith despite day-1 criticism about that fact. They call their style "pragmatism" and in some regards the market seems to validate it.