Month: April 2023

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Book recommendation: Release It! – Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

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In this book recommendation, I review the second edition of the book Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael Nygard, released in 2018. I also offer my 27 page summary of the book as free download. Introduction A common misconception is that the majority of the costs in a software-based project is allocated to … Read more

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Docker portability: 6 important caveats and pitfalls

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In this article I present 6 kinds of real-world Docker portability issues, where Docker-based software does not run or build the same way on two different machines. Introduction to Docker portability When I started learning about Docker several years ago, I was very enthusiastic about its promise of portability: write your software and Dockerfile once, … Read more