I often need to test a specific Linux binary or make sure something works as expected from yum install or apt install. To do this, it’s common to have a virtual machine lying around, or even a VPS that you can just quickly log into. Things are a bit easie... (more…)

I started playing with docker a while ago, and like most people I was instantly impressed with its power and ease of use. Simplicity is one ... (more…)

How to declaratively define, build, and deploy a Docker image for Isso with NixOS. (more…)

If you do heavy development with docker without a cleanup strategy soon your disk will fill at the time you really have to ship something out ASAP because production is on-fire but you cannot because docker refused to let you do anything with it. When we ... (more…)

Summary We needed to find a solution that would allow us to run background processing jobs on ECS cluster in AWS. There were a lot of challenges related to scaling and logging infrastructure but we… (more…)