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Docker vs WakaTime

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Overview

Docker
Docker
Stacks194.2K
Followers143.8K
Votes3.9K
WakaTime
WakaTime
Stacks156
Followers158
Votes52

Docker vs WakaTime: What are the differences?

Docker: Enterprise Container Platform for High-Velocity Innovation. The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere; WakaTime: Quantify Your Coding. Open-source plugins for automatic time tracking & insights into your programming. Quantify your coding - open source plugins for automatic time tracking & insights into your programming.

Docker and WakaTime are primarily classified as "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers" and "Programming & Code Analytics" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Docker are:

  • Integrated developer tools
  • open, portable images
  • shareable, reusable apps

On the other hand, WakaTime provides the following key features:

  • Fully automatic, with reports via email
  • Find the time you spend per feature/commit
  • See time spent in each language

"Rapid integration and build up" is the primary reason why developers consider Docker over the competitors, whereas "Automatic time tracking per project" was stated as the key factor in picking WakaTime.

Docker is an open source tool with 54K GitHub stars and 15.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Docker's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Docker has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3526 company stacks & 3446 developers stacks; compared to WakaTime, which is listed in 16 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Advice on Docker, WakaTime

Florian
Florian

IT DevOp at Agitos GmbH

Oct 22, 2019

Decided

lxd/lxc and Docker aren't congruent so this comparison needs a more detailed look; but in short I can say: the lxd-integrated administration of storage including zfs with its snapshot capabilities as well as the system container (multi-process) approach of lxc vs. the limited single-process container approach of Docker is the main reason I chose lxd over Docker.

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Detailed Comparison

Docker
Docker
WakaTime
WakaTime

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

Quantify your coding - open source plugins for automatic time tracking & insights into your programming.

Integrated developer tools; open, portable images; shareable, reusable apps; framework-aware builds; standardized templates; multi-environment support; remote registry management; simple setup for Docker and Kubernetes; certified Kubernetes; application templates; enterprise controls; secure software supply chain; industry-leading container runtime; image scanning; access controls; image signing; caching and mirroring; image lifecycle; policy-based image promotion
Fully automatic, with reports via email;Find the time you spend per feature/commit;See time spent in each language;Branch-level stats; File-level stats;Slack integration for team collaboration
Statistics
Stacks
194.2K
Stacks
156
Followers
143.8K
Followers
158
Votes
3.9K
Votes
52
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 823
    Rapid integration and build up
  • 692
    Isolation
  • 521
    Open source
  • 505
    Testa­bil­i­ty and re­pro­ducibil­i­ty
  • 460
    Lightweight
Cons
  • 8
    New versions == broken features
  • 6
    Unreliable networking
  • 6
    Documentation not always in sync
  • 4
    Moves quickly
  • 3
    Not Secure
Pros
  • 17
    Automatic time tracking per project
  • 12
    It's a great way to manage my time
  • 8
    Time log next to each commit on GitHub
  • 5
    Productivity
  • 5
    Big choice of supported IDEs
Cons
  • 1
    Slow down the IDE
Integrations
Java
Java
Docker Compose
Docker Compose
VirtualBox
VirtualBox
Linux
Linux
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Docker Swarm
Docker Swarm
boot2docker
boot2docker
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Docker Machine
Docker Machine
Vagrant
Vagrant
GitHub
GitHub
Slack
Slack
Eclipse
Eclipse
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
Vim
Vim
GitLab
GitLab
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
Atom
Atom
NetBeans IDE
NetBeans IDE

What are some alternatives to Docker, WakaTime?

LXD

LXD

LXD isn't a rewrite of LXC, in fact it's building on top of LXC to provide a new, better user experience. Under the hood, LXD uses LXC through liblxc and its Go binding to create and manage the containers. It's basically an alternative to LXC's tools and distribution template system with the added features that come from being controllable over the network.

LXC

LXC

LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers.

Codealike

Codealike

Codealike is a service that tracks your activity while you code normally. Once you've installed and signed in in your preferred IDE (Visual Studio, Eclipse or Chrome), the plugin will track, process and send the data to our servers so you can visualize it anytime you want to learn how you work and how to improve through trustworthy data.

rkt

rkt

Rocket is a cli for running App Containers. The goal of rocket is to be composable, secure, and fast.

Waydev

Waydev

It is a new data-driven way to truly understand your engineers.It analyzes your codebase from Github, Gitlab, Azure DevOps & Bitbucket to help you bring out the best in your engineers work.

Vagrant Cloud

Vagrant Cloud

Vagrant Cloud pairs with Vagrant to enable access, insight and collaboration across teams, as well as to bring exposure to community contributions and development environments.

Coderbuds

Coderbuds

Zero config DORA metrics and engineering intelligence. SOC 2 ready. Setup in 5 minutes. Track performance, not people.

Uplevel your AI coding productivity

Uplevel your AI coding productivity

Zest is a Cursor, VS Code & Chrome extension that measures and improves AI-assisted coding productivity by giving real-time coaching, session insights, and automated end-of day standups.

hug-scm

hug-scm

A humane, intuitive interface for Git and other version control systems. Hug transforms complex and forgettable Git commands into a simple, predictable language that feels natural to use, keeping you focused on your code, not on wrestling with version control.

GitPulse

GitPulse

Free AI-powered GitHub repository analytics and open source discovery platform. Analyze repositories, find good first issues, compare projects, and discover contribution opportunities. 500+ curated issues for beginners. Real-time commit analysis and contributor insights.

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