The CoreOS project is doing some very interesting work on
how to build, deploy, and scale web applications. Their big focus is to
keep the platform as minimal as possible, which means that everything must be
run as a container. That in turn means that the...
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No one enjoys waiting, and waiting for your software to build and tests to run isn’t fun either—in fact, it’s quite expensive. And if you’re building your Docker image in a CI system like GitHub Actions with ephemeral runners—where a new environment gets ... (more…)
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Sometime last month you built a Docker image for your Python application. Today you start with the same revision, fix a minor bug, and build a new image from scratch. And suddenly you’ve got a mess on your hands. If your build is not reproducible, you mig... (more…)
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Why we decided to migrate our services running on docker containers to serverless stack using aws lambda functions and aws api gateway... (more…)
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In my last post of this series, we discussed what happens behind the scenes in containers, created them manually (without using Docker), and realized how miserably long it would take for us to create just a bare-minimum of what could be called a con... (more…)
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