Containers

This is a modern take on distributed systems, you can read the other articles written by me here. So in the first few stories, we discussed what is distributed system is and some things (Replication/Sharding, etc) that make up the crux of DS. So, distributed systems are not new, they've…

In this post, I don’t like to bother you with a lot of technical words. So, I’m going to explain Docker as simple as I can. Have you ever deployed a project into a remote server? Four years ago, I developed a blog and wanted to deploy it on a…

Let’s assume there is an API ready to be deployed and one decides to use the industry leading orchestrating software — Kubernetes. Originating from Google, kubernetes in greek means helmsman or pilot and it serves exactly that purpose — commanding, in this case, a fleet of containers. It makes scaling…

Things that I found interesting and useful day-to-day. Expose a port for a running container. If you came across a use case where you forgot to expose a port when starting a Docker container this is how you can expose a port without removing the container. First, you need to inspect the docker container if you really…

Today, the team at Data Minded is proud to announce the launch of Conveyor, our managed, cloud-based data platform. Yet another data platform on the market? Well, yes… Yet we believe this one is different. Conveyor takes your data projects from ideation to production. Unlike many other platforms available out…

A short blog on how to containerise a simple vweb API. This is Part 1. In Part 2, I will post on how to deploy a V Container to AWS Lambda. TL;DR; Go to shyamsundarb-arch/v-with-docker (github.com). Follow instructions provided there. Steps: Clone Repo Build Container Image Run it locally Push to…