Stop Patching, Start Shipping by Delicia De Jong

Chainguard's sales pitch centers on breaking the 'doom cycle' where developers waste time triaging CVEs in bloated Docker images. The company builds minimal, hardened container images and libraries (Python, Java, JavaScript) rebuilt daily from source using their own OS (Wolfi), delivering near-zero CVEs and cryptographically signed SBOMs at SLSA level 3. They argue 98% of software is open-source dependencies with poor provenance and growing malware risk, costing businesses ~$4.9M per breach and 4 hours/month per developer in patching. Chainguard offers 5 free hardened images forever, plus free Trivy images for 12 months and free libraries for 3 months in response to recent malware attacks.