I previously outlined the methods I used to speed up our AWS infrastructure spin-up time. The method covered in this post further reduced that time by about 50% by pre-baking all of the services we...

How to store and distribute private docker images using hosted repositories with a free plan: Codefresh, GitLab, TreeScale & Canister... (more…)

Get a high level overview on a number of Docker related tools so you can identify them and learn what they do.

Increasingly we run our Perl programs inside docker containers, because there are advantages in terms of isolation and deployment. Containers provide applications with an idealized view of the OS - they see their own filesystem, their own networking stack... (more…)

In a previous post an artificial benchmark was done to measure the performance difference between IP and Unix domain sockets. The results were somewhat impre... (more…)