Your Organization
Has Amnesia.
Knowledge is your organization’s most expensive asset. Stop letting it evaporate every time someone closes a Slack tab or leaves the building.
Build a memory that lasts longer than a tenure.
The Cost of Forgetting
A set of questions designed to audit your organization’s "Brain."
Phase 1: Individual Friction
Target: Contributors
The Archaeology Tax
"Have you ever spent more than two hours looking for the reasoning behind a single line of code, only to find the person who wrote it left the company last year?"
The Slack Void
"How many times this week have you typed 'Does anyone know why we...' into a channel, knowing the answer is buried in a thread from 2023 that you’ll never find?"
The Déjà Vu
"Are you currently solving a problem that feels suspiciously like a bug the team 'fixed' six months ago?"
Phase 2: Team Friction
Target: Managers & Leads
The Senior Bottleneck
"Is your most senior engineer's primary job 'Building Features' or acting as a 'Human Search Engine' for everyone else?"
The Onboarding Wall
"When a new hire joins, do they spend their first month 'doing' or just 'shadowing' because the context they need isn't documented anywhere?"
The Silent Knowledge Leak
"If your Lead Developer put in their two-week notice today, how many 'Secret Workarounds' and 'Critical Contexts' would walk out the door with them?"
Phase 3: Strategic Risk
Target: Executives
The Expensive Repeat
"What was the cost of the last major system outage? Now, what would it cost if it happened again for the exact same reason because the post-mortem was forgotten?"
The Pivot Tax
"When you decided to switch tech stacks or providers, did you have a record of why the previous one was chosen, or are you about to walk into the same trap twice?"
The Invisible Debt
"How much of your $10M+ engineering payroll is actually being spent on 'Context Retrieval' instead of 'Product Innovation'?"
"How long does it take for a new hire to be truly autonomous?"
Instant access to the "Organization Brain" accelerates ramps by 4x.
Teams repeat mistakes because lessons are buried in chats and tickets.
DONNA connects your scattered history into a coherent, queryable brain.
How DONNA Works
DONNA in Action
It doesn't just "chat". It constructs a Decision Chain and proves it with Live Evidence.
Analysis
The Bottom Line
Kubernetes removed dockershim to eliminate technical debt and enforce the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) standard. The shim was a temporary bridge that became a maintenance bottleneck for the Kubernetes team as the ecosystem evolved toward native CRI-compliant runtimes like containerd and CRI-O.
Synthesized Decision Analysis
The Root Cause (Technical)
Docker was created before Kubernetes established the CRI standard. To make Docker work, Kubernetes maintainers wrote dockershim—a heavy, hard-coded bridge.
The Strategic Shift (Architectural)
The removal wasn't about killing Docker, but about standardizing the interface. By removing the shim, Kubernetes forces a cleaner architecture where the kubelet interacts directly with the container runtime via gRPC, removing an unnecessary "man-in-the-middle."
The Execution Timeline (Process)
Donna has traced the deprecation lifecycle to ensure no surprises:
- Late 2020: Formal proposal to remove the shim (Enhancement #2221).
- v1.20 Release: Public deprecation warning and migration guides published.
- v1.24 Release: Full code removal.
Decision Timeline
Formal Proposal
Enhancement #2221 proposes removing dockershim to reduce maintenance burden.
Public Warning
Deprecation announced in v1.20. Migration guides published.
Code Removal
Dockershim code completely removed. Users must use CRI runtime.
Evidence & Sources
Preserve your
organizational wisdom.
Ready to stop the cycle of amnesia?