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Hello! Ed here. Currently on deployment, learning CSS
Welcome! I really enjoyed your blog post! Hope you can come back home soon :)
Thank you and nice to meet you. Still learning my way around.
Welcome, Eddie!
which topic you are learning right now?
Hello!
Just started the Git section.
Hello!
Just started the Git portion.
Javascript, svg
Same to you brother!
Welcome Bro !!
Hi
Welcome bro!
Hey, guys! I'm a full-stack web dev, and I'm mostly using this platform as an excuse to document, study and take the dust off of my English (it is my second language). I hope to be useful for anyone that passes by my profile.
Hi! I'm a frontend web dev, English is my second language too. Really nice to join this community! In near future wanna learn backend.
Hey! I'm a full-stack web developer, too and will be glad to exchange knowledge!)
Welcome!
I am a full-stack web developer, too working on node js, react js and mongodb stack.
Hello, insert some kind of wave emoji, I'm Raphael. I'm a freelance DevOps and do unhealthy amounts of automation, kubernetes-stuffs and cloud magic. I've been a lurker for about 3 years and last week thought I'd finally open my mouth and chime in :D
If you want to read about Container, Kubernetes or Cloud-Stuff, I'd be happy to write a few things down for you :D
Hey Raphael
Iām going from being a low-code developer to full-stack. Iām building my first web app and wondering how I go from āit runs on my machineā to āive got a multi-environment, self-healing, auto-scaling, well-oiled internet machineā. What would you say are the key tasks to achieve with containers and when should they be done in the project?
Cheers
Ferg
Oof, that is a fantastic question, and deserves a detailed answer.
If you want, I can whip up an article about this real quick, since it might blow up your viewport, once I hammer out the things I think "are necessary".
It would probably be too much / out of scope for this welcome thread :)
Rereading it, it is a massive question! No need to rush on my part but would be great to hear what youāve got to say. I currently work with a development platform that provides a lot of developer functionality through containers and orchestration so Iāve seen the benefits. What I donāt know is how effortful things are, so I guess Iād also be interested in where the biggest return on effort is.
How long have you been doing devops/cloud/container stuff for?
Indeed it is a massive question, but I love it to be honest. I'll gladly write about it. Maybe it's so much, it could become a series. I'll see how far I'll get tomorrow, I already got a sizeable post drafted :D
I've been doing devops for about 12 years now, though I have been more on the automation side of things, so heavier on the ops part, than dev.
Containers and Cloud I'd say about 8-10 years, though at first more "private cloud" corporate stuff, public clouds roundabout 5 years with Azure and AWS now.
As for the effort of things.
I'd say the ROI depends on the requirements and the mentality of the team, you decide how far you want to go.
From a perfectly automated pipeline that is triggered by a git push, all the way through staging, up to production is a perfectly normal thing and, depending on the requirements, can be done in just a few days, up to a few weeks, or even months.
Others in the meantime want to build containers locally, test them by hand and go down their checklist, like a "manual pipeline", until they deploy their container to production by hand.
Disclaimer: I'm pretty hardcore on the automation side. While it is definitely a bigger investment up-front, once you are fully or even semi-automated (which isn't as much work as it may sound at first), you are essentially developing 100% of the time. All the menial deployment tasks are gone, which can result in a huge net profit in development-time, which itself again results in more features, more quickly and thereby happier stakeholders.
A few days back I wrote a post about "Zero to Kubernetes", which basically automates a local kubernetes setup into one command. If you want to dabble with containers, you could probably make good use of that :)
Cheers Raphael, I will take a look at your post tonight. Iām in full agreement with you about automation - Iād rather invest a bit more time now to save time later, and also hope to avoid mistakes through humans doing repeatable tasks. Plus repeatable tasks are just boring, right?
I just started the first post in the series of "How to transition to containers". If you would like, I would love to credit you for the inspiration :)
Welcome!
Hello everyone! I'm CEO at CreativeIT, a team of software engineers and open-source contributors. I'm a full-stack JS developer with 9+ years of experience, interested in React, Angular, Node.js, JavaScript, React Native, and UI/UX design. I'm here to share my knowledge, discuss ideas, and learn new things.
Hi, I'm Steve from Nigeria, I'm a frontend developer with little experience and I want to learn alot in this community so as to help me develop my skills
Hey. New here too. Hope you get what you need here.
Yes and you too?
Hey, Steve. It's nice to have you here. Together we can learn a lot.
Hello, I'm here because I love reading up on new technologies and how I can utilize them in my own work. I'm always stuck on what I should work on for personal projects and tend to jump between programming languages. Currently I'm working on a movie watchlist / suggestion application for me and a few friends, with that I'm learning express js, mongoDB with mongoose, deploying my application. I'm pretty early on in my career and want to absorb as much knowledge i can.
Good Evening. Just learning to code hoping to make a career change.
Welcome!
Thank you very much!
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Hello! Am Daniel from Kenya. Recently, started pursuing a career as a Web Developer and am here to exchange ideas and get some tips or referrals on some of the best resources that can help me unless the beast in me :)
Hello, everyone!
Just landed here, wishing everyone is safe (be it at home, in a protest or elsewhere). Wear masks, yĀ“all.
Feeling uneasy among all the possibilities out there, especially since IĀ“m a beginner in tech studies/development - a whole new world opens out, which is so awesome!
My current status is 'employed' (yey!), although I have an urge to do something else - in fact, something that I havenĀ“t figured out yet. So... yeah, pretty much, IĀ“d welcome any advice concerning what could be a good path to follow until I can grasp what I want to create and share with the world.
IĀ“m a hard worker, BTW, my bosses seem to love that characteristic in me.
Looking forward to making new connections, and have fun in the process!
Hey! I am from Germany and mainly a freelancer for Node.js and web-projects but I am also honing my entrepreneurial skills and try to launch side-projects :) Have worked in a quite successful German startup as a backend/devops engineer for 3 years, so I am really happy to share my knowledge on keeping a backend running for 40 millions users :)
Would love to read your articles
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