Tag: infrastructure
Total 6 Posts
Today I want to tell you something about a great tool that I'm extensively using on a daily basis for a few years now. It's called Docker, and I've already created couple posts about it, but none of them is dedicated to beginners. Time to fix it....
Today I'll show how you can monitor Redis activity. It's very useful for low-level debugging. Few words about Redis In a single sentence, Redis is an in-memory key-value store. But it's also much more than that - it supports many complex data types and is blazingly fast (can perform milions operations per second). It's mostly used via language wrappers, like...
Since you are here, you're probably using Docker on your development machine, and maybe on a single production host. You found out that single host is not enough anymore. What should you do? I've been there! And I'll provide a couple of tips how to prepare yourself for Docker Swarm in production, possible solution to your problem. It's all based...
Hi! I'm working with Docker for some time now. Writing Dockerfiles is an essential part of this process, and I wanted to share a few tips how to make it better. Our goals: We want to minimize image size, build time and number of layers. We want to maximize build cache usage and Dockerfile readability. We want to make working...
In this post I'm going to analyze Docker role in each stage of application lifecycle, and try to highlight cases when you should consider moving to Swarm. It's not a getting started tutorial, but I'll create one in future. Development with Docker Docker really made my life much easier. Let's say, I need MySQL. Or Ghost (my blog is happily...
