LocalStack built something genuinely useful. A local emulator for AWS services that let you test Lambdas, S3 buckets, SQS queues, and DynamoDB tables without touching a real AWS account. For...
A Node.js application shipped as a Docker image with all development dependencies included: node_modules with Jest, ESLint, TypeScript compiler, and hundreds of transitive dev dependencies baked in. The image weighs...
Containers are not new anymore. Docker turned twelve this year, and the developers who once called it revolutionary now just call it Tuesday. Yet the fundamentals behind containers are more...
A growing e-commerce company needed to manage logs from its Docker containers on Amazon Linux 2. With thousands of orders processed daily, server logs grew quickly and became hard to...
Let’s talk about running multiple Docker containers together. Specifically, I’ll show you how to spin up a WordPress site with a database backing it, using Docker Compose.
I like keeping my system clean. Too many installed packages, too many dependencies I’ll never use again – that kind of thing bugs me. So when I realized I could...