Scott Johnston

DockerCon 2022: Community-powered, Developer-obsessed

Scott Johnston
May 10 2022

DockerCon 2022 represents the 8th year of DockerCon. The very first one in June 2014 in San Francisco welcomed 300 participants; last year’s all-virtual DockerCon 2021 welcomed 80,000, and we’re expecting the same this year. The growth in DockerCon participation is a...

Docker Raises Series C: More Build, More Share, More Run

Scott Johnston
Mar 31 2022

Today we’re announcing Docker’s closing of $105 million in Series C financing to accelerate our vision of enabling developers to spend more time on innovation, less time on everything else. The round was led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) and includes...

Docker: Nine Years YOUNG

Scott Johnston
Mar 15 2022

Nine years ago today, March 15, 2013, Solomon Hykes, the founder of Docker, first demoed Docker publicly to the world at PyCon. On stage Solomon noted that, for developers, “shipping to the server is hard,” and thus he and the early team designed Docker to help...

Docker’s Response to the Invasion of Ukraine

Scott Johnston
Mar 8 2022

Docker is closely following the events surrounding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The community of Docker employees, Docker Captains, developers, customers, and partners is committed to creating an open, collaborative environment that fosters the free and peaceful...

Celebrating Our Second Fiscal Year

Scott Johnston
Feb 1 2022

Yesterday, January 31, we finished our second full fiscal year since our November 2019 restructuring and recapitalization, and I couldn’t be prouder of the Docker team and what we’ve accomplished together. While it’s difficult to summarize 12 months, highlights...

Docker’s Developer Community: Wind In Our Sails

Scott Johnston
Nov 11 2021

Two years ago, in November 2019, we refocused our company on the needs of developers. At the time, we recognized the growing adoption of microservices, the explosion in the number of tools, and the many opportunities to simplify these complexities. Little did we know...

Accelerating New Features in Docker Desktop

Scott Johnston
Sep 16 2021

In November 2019 Docker announced our re-focusing on the needs of developers. Specifically, we set out to simplify the complexity of modern application development to help developers get their ideas from code to cloud as quickly and securely as possible. We’ve made a...

Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions

Scott Johnston
Aug 31 2021

Docker is used by millions of developers to build, share, and run any app, anywhere, and 55% of professional developers use Docker every day at work. In these work environments, the increase in outside attacks on software supply chains is accelerating developer demand...

Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done

Scott Johnston
Mar 16 2021

Today we’re excited and humbled to announce Docker’s Series B raise of $23 million to accelerate our mission of delivering tools development teams love to quickly take their ideas from code to cloud. The round was led by Tribe Capital with participation from our...