Wercker is a Docker-based continuous delivery platform that helps software developers build and deploy their applications and microservices.

[3] It acts as the middleman between source-code hosting repositories like GitHub and cloud servers like Amazon Web Services.

Each time a developer makes a change to his or her codebase in Git, Wercker retrieves the code, builds a version of it inside a container to isolate it, tests it for errors and then notifies the user if it either passed or failed.

[8] The service includes a social networking element, providing a Facebook-like wall so team members know what their colleagues are doing.

[10] Hernandez van Leuffen came up with Wercker’s underlying technology for his thesis project on containers and automatic resource provisioning at the University of San Francisco.

[4] NexusLabs, a foundation based in Amsterdam and at MIT, helped Wercker attract venture capital from the United States.

Company executives did not reveal the amount of funding they received, but Wercker allegedly raised close to $1 million.

It also won the Gigaom Structure: Europe Launchpad competition, receiving both the People’s Choice and Judge’s awards.