Stephan Heunis
Stephan Heunis

@jsheunis@mas.to

Research Data&Software Engineer, fMRI data quality, transparency in science, data+code sharing. Parental unit. he/him. 🇿🇦🇳🇱🇩🇪

November 9, 2022

universities in the 1980s: writing the majority of internet standard RFCs and their implementations

universities now: moving away from Microsoft cloud is really hard okay? 🥺

> "Our results show that
Docker does not guarantee reproducibility under any tested definition, nor is there a “silver bullet” set of rules for
writing Dockerfiles yielding reproducible images"

Nice paper from

on the use of Docker and reproducibility [1]

Somewhat related to what we were trying to show at ACM REP'25 [2], but at different scales (in time and amount of dockerfiles).

The scientific community cannot say that it has not been warned of Docker's reproducibility pitfalls ! :)

[1] arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12811
[2] dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3736731

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