docker

Lately I’ve been interested in how to setup application monitoring. With Docker, it should be pretty straight forward to setup tools like Prometheus and Grafana, so I set out to see how simple it would be to wire up my little typescript chat application in Docker with some application monitoring. This means I had to update my typescript server and client code to work inside a Docker container, add some docker files to build the images, and make a docker compose file to spin up the whole shebang. [Read More]

I’ve been using Docker a lot at work lately, and it is pretty awesome. Generally I prefer structure over chaos, which is why I lean towards typed languages rather than scripting languages. I like things well defined. I like to know exactly what I’m getting. Docker seemed like a very interesting solution for this problem. Specifically, it sounded like a great way to solve the “Well it doesn’t happen on my machine” bugs. [Read More]