5d ago · 8 min read · Eighteen months ago I inherited a mess. A four-person team had built a reasonably capable ML inference service — three Python microservices, a Redis queue, a Postgres instance, an Nginx reverse proxy — all wired together with a docker-compose.yml tha...
Join discussionMar 6 · 18 min read · There's a perception problem with Docker Compose. Ask a room full of platform engineers what they think of it, and you'll hear some version of: "It's great for local dev, but we use Kubernetes for rea
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Mar 3 · 4 min read · Local Development with Docker Compose: Databases, Queues, and Services Running PostgreSQL, Redis, and a message queue locally used to mean installing each service, managing versions, and dealing with conflicts. Docker Compose makes this trivial: defi...
Join discussionMar 3 · 8 min read · Docker for Developers: Alternatives, Multi-Stage Builds, and Performance Tips Docker changed how developers think about environments. But "just use Docker" glosses over the practical details: Docker Desktop's licensing, the performance cost of runnin...
Join discussionMar 3 · 11 min read · Container Orchestration: Docker Compose vs Kubernetes vs Nomad vs Swarm Container orchestration is the most over-engineered decision in modern software. Teams running three containers reach for Kubernetes. Startups with one server set up Helm charts....
Join discussionFeb 28 · 6 min read · Introduction Lately, I've been working in a style where I keep multiple tasks running in parallel using the Codex app and git-wt.However, in a docker compose-based development environment where backen
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Feb 27 · 11 min read · Table of Contents Introduction Infrastructure Before Virtual Machines What Are Virtual Machines Problems with Virtual Machines Birth of Containers and Docker Bare Metal vs Virtual Machine vs Doc
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Feb 27 · 4 min read · Introduction As I dive into the world of DevOps, one of the most fundamental skills to master is containerization. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through my DevOps project: containerizing a Flask web
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Feb 23 · 5 min read · In the previous session, we successfully deployed a multi-tier WordPress application connected to MySQL on Kubernetes. During that setup, we passed database credentials using environment variables dir
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