Nick Janetakis

Hi, I'm Nick. I'm a full stack developer and course creator who focuses on building and deploying web apps. Take a look at my blog or courses.

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Here's a few patterns I've picked up based on using Docker since 2014. I've extracted these from doing a bunch of freelance work.

Let's talk about when it might be a good or bad idea to start using microservices. SPOILER ALERT: it's not the same for every project.

I noticed about a 10x speed up across a number of projects, we'll avoid using a venv and run things as a non-root user too.

Spotting differences in code is an important part of what we do, Delta is by far the best CLI diff tool I ever used.

In this article you'll see how to run a PDP-11 simulator through Docker to interact with Unix as it was back in 1972.