Articles in category: AWS

Salvatore Cordiano Salvatore Cordiano avatar

5 minute read

If we think about computing in the Cloud Era, our mind is immediately drawn towards virtual machines and containers. Therefore, for example, when building a production environment with both approaches we think about the need of patching the operating system and/or upgrading the container. At the end of 2014 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new service called “Lambda”, that allows us to focus on business logic and not on infrastructure.

Lorenzo Fontana Lorenzo Fontana avatar Daniele Contini Daniele Contini avatar

7 minute read

In locale funzionava

Questo articolo si rivolge a chi ha già una conoscenza base di docker e del suo funzionamento e sta cercando come avanzare al passo successivo, usandolo quotidianamente in sviluppo e in produzione.

Avere un ambiente di sviluppo/test il più simile possibile a quello di produzione aiuta molto nel garantire un corretto funzionamento dopo il deploy.

In uno scenario tipico, lo sviluppatore ha installati sulla propria macchina locale tutti i servizi da cui dipende la sua applicazione, il che comporta quanto segue:

Lorenzo Fontana Lorenzo Fontana avatar

7 minute read

It works on my machine

This post is addressed to people who already have basic knowledge about docker, about how it works and are looking for a way to move to the next step with the goal of using it in development and production day by day.

Having a development/testing environment as close as possible to the production one helps a lot in assuring that things will behave correctly when delivered.