There is no question in my mind that Docker was, by far, the most disruptive technology of 2015. What barely registered on the radar for many in 2014, became something shiny in Q1, advanced to thinking material in Q2, reached "you have to be crazy to run that in production" by Q3, and is now on everyone's three year plan.
If you haven't heard of Docker, I'm not sure what cave you've been living in but here's the short story:
In case you haven't been paying attention, Linux is in a mad dash to copy everything that made Solaris 10 amazing when it launched in 2005. Everyone has recognized the power of Zones, ZFS and DTrace but licensing issues and the sheer effort required to implement the technologies has made it a long process.
Last night I watched almost the entire 5 hour live webcast announcing Oracle's strategies regarding the Sun Microsystems acquisition. As a near-evangelist for Sun and Solaris, I'm very happy with the deal finally going through and even happier that most of what Oracle said makes sense to me as a customer.