At Codest, we read a lot. And we’d like to share our top picks with you! Here’s what caught our attention this week.
Author: Lazarus Lazaridis
We run a lot of our workloads through Docker, both in development and production. However dockerizing a fresh new app comes with its own pitfalls and challenges, and it’s always good to have an up-to-date guide laying around. Here’s a handy fresh one.
https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2019/04/07/dockerizing-a-rails-application.html
Author: Terence Lee and Joe Kutner at Heroku
Just in case you’re pressed for time and absolutely cannot spare a while to dockerize your own app, Heroku is releasing their tools for seamlessly moving code into Docker images. It’s an interesting read about a cool piece of tooling.
https://blog.heroku.com/docker-images-with-buildpacks
Author: Oz Nova
Here’s an oldie but a goodie, which started a few interesting discussions in the team. This argument for doing things as simply as possible (but not simpler) is still well worth the read - and a reminder that we don’t have to use tools just because they’re cool.
https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
Author: Netlify
If you’re using Netlify’s excellent services, you probably know that it’s sometimes hard to figure out what effect your changes will have in production. Ache no more, for Netlify has released a tool to duplicate their platform’s innards locally.
https://www.netlify.com/products/dev/
Author: Gimli
Our frontenders ❤️Visual Studio Code for its excellent support of modern JavaScript. It looks like soon they might have more to love - Gimli is an extension package to enable very rapid iteration on front end concepts. Currently in Kickstarter phase, we’ll be keeping a keen eye on this one.
Bonus! Did you know PostgreSQL has five levels of DEBUG logging? We were surprised!
