A Brief History of Container Technology

Ronald Bradford
September 20, 2016

The following is the text from a presentation slide at Oracle Open World 2016.

While Docker has been playing a key role in adoption of the Linux container Technology, the did not invent the concept of containers.

2015 – OCI
- 2014 – rkt
  - 2013 – Docker
    - 2013 – LMCTFY
      - 2011 – Warden
        
        2008 – LXC
        
        2007 – AIX (6.1) WPARS
        
        2007 – cgroups in Linux Kernel (2.6.24)
        
        2006 – Process Containers
        
        2005 – openvz
        
        2004 – Solaris Zones
        
        2001 – Linux vserver
        
        2000 – FreeBSD jails
        
        1979 – Unix V7 added chroot
        DISCLAIMER: This post is only a repeat of the content of the slide and has not be verified for accuracy.

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Why using production workloads over simulated workloads is critical

Ronald Bradford
May 30, 2026

AI-Assisted SQL Tuning Last week in his keynote speech at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 , Andy Pavlo presented Databases: The Final Boss of Agents and provided some useful insights into query optimization of simulated workloads leveraging AI.

Improving your MySQL Security Posture Presentation

Ronald Bradford
October 5, 2025

At the MySQL BR Conference 2025 I had the opportunity to speak about Improving Your MySQL Security Posture. You can find a copy of my slides on my Presentations , and a Portugese (Brazil) translation.

MySQL and Heatwave Summit Presentation

Ronald Bradford
April 30, 2025

Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the MySQL and Heatwave Summit in San Francisco. I discussed the impact of the new MySQL 8.0 default caching_sha2_password authentication, replacing the mysql_native_password authentication that was the default for approximately 20 of the 30 years that MySQL has existed.