Docker Desktop costs money now. Your Windows box already has the engine.

<h1> Docker Sandboxes in 2026: The Evolution of Secure Code Isolation </h1> <p>If you've scrolled Hacker News this year, you've probably noticed a recurring theme: Docker

<p>When I joined Ericsson's R&amp;D team as an intern, our development environment had a problem that every engineer on the team silently accepted as normal: spinning up a full

<p>Docker Desktop changed its licensing in August 2021, and the ripple effects are still spreading. Large organizations — roughly anyone above 250 employees or $10 million in

<p>Docker Desktop was using 4GB of RAM on my machine. Sitting there. Doing nothing. No containers running. Just the daemon.</p> <p>I don't know about you, but 4 gigs for a

<p>If you're running SonarQube (or anything CPU- and memory-hungry) inside Docker Desktop on Windows and the scans feel like they're running through molasses, your