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New Stratospheric Blog Post on Faster Amazon ECS Container Deployments

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This week, we published a new Stratospheric blog post on how we achieved faster Amazon ECS Container deployments. So, if you're running containerized applications on AWS you might want to check this out. While that specific example uses the AWS CDK in its Java incarnation the general ideas and settings are generally applicable and therefore should easily translate to other languages and environments, too.

Optimising Docker Image Sizes: “Self-extracting” Node.js Applications

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.As a follow-up on last week's article on tools for inspecting Docker images, and Docker image sizes in particular, today I'd like to introduce another - more custom - approach for reducing the size of Docker images for production deployments. As a means of shaving off an additional 50 MB from the packaged application in question I came up with an idea somewhat reminiscent of the self-extracting archives of yore (of the WinRAR and 7-Zip ...

13. Februar 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Tools for Inspecting Docker Images

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Recently, I needed to inspect a Docker image in order to optimize its size for distribution and deployment on an ARM-based industrial microcontroller with rather tight bandwidth constraints. Once deployed at customer sites, these controllers typically don't have an Internet connection but still need to be updated occasionally, via the local network in that case. Since there's no guaranteed minimum network speed in this type of environment, yet software updates still have to complete within ...

6. Februar 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

RunKit: Instant, reproducible JavaScript playgrounds

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.I'm a huge proponent of the idea that programming tools should directly interact with coding and provide immediate, responsive feedback to changes. RunKit is such a tool that offers a comprehensive JavaScript / Node.js prototyping environment. The service supplies you with instant, sandboxed Node.js instances called "notebooks" that allow you to experiment with the whole gamut of NPM modules. Moreover, "from graphs and maps to low level hexadecimal inspectors" RunKit offers data visualisations for immediate visual ...

12. Februar 2017 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation