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Learning by reading: How docker cp works
Published on Oct 22, 2020
Many programmers I look up to preach the importance of reading code in addition to just writing it. I’ve decided to kill two birds with one stone and read the …
The 3 phases of Prezi’s development environment evolution
Published on Oct 13, 2020
Unlike production, development environments usually evolve ad-hoc. Teams are so busy deploying new features that they don’t have time to invest in “sideways …
Feature spotlight: In-cluster builds
Published on Sep 23, 2020
One of our goals with Blimp is to make it as light as possible. Even 16GB MacBook pros are too small to develop modern applications when you factor in the …
Developers won’t test if it’s too hard
Published on Sep 9, 2020
I’ve noticed two qualities in dev environments I like: They give me confidence my code will work in prod They give me really fast feedback These dev envs let …
A Brief Introduction to Blimp
Published on Aug 25, 2020
Blimp is a drop-in replacement for Docker Compose that runs your development environment on Kubernetes in the cloud. It’s backward compatible with Docker …
Why Eventbrite runs a 700 node Kube cluster just for development
Published on Aug 19, 2020
In Part 1 of this interview with Remy DeWolf, a principal engineer on the DevTools team at Eventbrite, we discussed what information factored into Eventbrite’s …
15 KubeCon 2020 Talks We're Attending
Published on Aug 17, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 is online 8/17-8/20 this year! There’s a bunch of exciting Kubernetes ecosystem talks slated for this year. Here’s 15 talks …
Why managing dev environments is a full time job at Eventbrite
Published on Aug 11, 2020
Deciding when to invest in developer productivity improvements is hard. If you’re on the ops side of things, you’re usually concerned about production and …
Cloud Native Portland Meetup Talk: 5 Common Docker Compose Mistakes
Published on Aug 4, 2020
5 Common Docker Compose Mistakes When building a containerized application, developers need a way to boot containers they’re working on to test their code. …
Why SREs Should be Responsible for Development Environments
Published on Jul 31, 2020
Let’s discuss an extremely common anti-pattern I’ve noticed with teams that are relatively new to containers/cloud-native/kubernetes, etc. More so than when …
How We Cut Our Docker Push Time by 90%
Published on Jul 22, 2020
At Blimp, we’re building Blimp, a version of Docker Compose that runs in the cloud. Our goal is to improve the development productivity by providing developers …
Feature spotlight: Persist volumes forever
Published on Jul 8, 2020
One of the biggest challenges with working with containers is persisting state. Containers are great for booting applications in a consistent way. However, …
Using Data Containers To Boot Your Development Environment In Seconds
Published on Jul 7, 2020
One of the most time consuming parts of booting a Docker development environment is initializing databases. The data container pattern gets around this obstacle …
How to Develop Your Python Docker Applications Faster
Published on Jun 30, 2020
Docker has many benefits that make deploying applications easier. But the process of developing Python with Docker can be frustratingly slow. That’s because …
What a mysterious bug taught us about how Docker stores registry credentials
Published on Jun 22, 2020
We recently ran into a mysterious bug that required hours of digging into the arcane details of Docker’s registry credentials store to figure out. Although in …
5 Common Docker Compose Mistakes
Published on Jun 12, 2020
When building a containerized application, developers need a way to boot containers they’re working on to test their code. While there are several ways to do …
How to Develop Your Node.Js Docker Applications Faster
Published on Jun 3, 2020
Docker has revolutionized how Node.js developers create and deploy applications. But developing a Node.js Docker application can be slow and clunky. The main …
DockerCon 2020 Talk: Docker Compose in the Cloud with Blimp
Published on May 28, 2020
Docker Engine, Desktop, Compose, and the rest of the Docker ecosystem has had a transformative impact on modern cloud backend infrastructure. One essential …
10 DockerCon 2020 Talks We're Attending
Published on May 26, 2020
DockerCon Live 2020 is a free event online on 5/28! We’re really excited to learn more about the container ecosystem. In addition to our Co-founder Ethan’s talk …
Tutorial: How to Use Docker Volumes to Code Faster
Published on May 20, 2020
If you are a developer who uses Docker, odds are you may have heard that you can use volumes to maintain persistent state for your containers in production. But …
How to check Docker CPU/RAM/Disk Usage on OSX
Published on Apr 3, 2020
Intro Docker has become an indispensable tool in the contemporary development workflow. As trends in software development shift increasingly towards cloud …
Docker Snapshots for Development and Test Data
Published on Feb 8, 2020
TL;DR dksnap allows you to create and manage snapshots of docker containers. We expect this to be especially useful for developers working with database …
The Dark Side of Microservices
Published on Feb 1, 2020
There is an endless supply of blog posts, white papers, and slide decks, evangelizing the virtues of microservices. They talk about how microservices “increase …
Kube Explained: Part 2 - Containers
Published on Jan 22, 2020
In our previous post, Kube Explained: Part 1, I described how the introduction of the cloud resulted in CI/CD, Microservices, and a massive amount of pressure …
Kube Explained: Part 1 - How CI/CD and Microservices Led to Kubernetes
Published on Jan 11, 2020
Engineering teams have always had constant pressure to deliver software faster, cheaper, and more reliably. As a result, many of the recent trends in backend …
ESCAPE/19: How Microservices Enable Multi-Cloud at the Expense of Developers
Published on Dec 19, 2019
I recently had the pleasure of speaking about Blimp at ESCAPE/19 in New York City. It was a fantastic event packed full of sharp folks with interesting …
KubeCon 2019: How can we make developers love Kubernetes?
Published on Dec 12, 2019
This was my second year at KubeCon and I had a blast. Everyone was so open to sharing their experiences, and I finally got to try a california burrito. With …
Blimp featured on Kellblog
Published on Dec 12, 2019
Blimp advisor Dave Kellogg featured us in his blogpost “Why I’m Advising Blimp on Kellblog. Dave Kellogg is an expert on technology and startups, the former CEO …