It’s hard to be confident that the software you’ve just written will actually work. You can write unit tests, but these are for testing… (more…)

Part of my daily routine is to go through Reddit, RSS feeds and also wading through the MediaGlasses twitter account where I follow loads…...

Aside from Uber, I can't think of a more utilized, hyped, and well funded Silicon Valley startup (still in operation) fumbling as bad as Docker did in 2017. (more…)

Docker 1.13 simplifies deployment of composed application to a swarm (mode) cluster, by using familiar and well-known `docker-compose.yml` syntax.

No, that’s not a typo or a joke. I have created a Docker container containing a single Unix executable with no dependencies that occupies less than 1 KB of space on disk. There are no other files included in the container — not even libc. (more…)