Keep your host free from lingering services and mismatched versions. Run your dev stack in isolation and rebuild it when needed.

Managing Docker is the most important part.

Containers are meant to provide component isolation in a modern software stack. Put your database in one container, your web application in another, and they can all be scaled, managed, restarted, and ...

Tom explains that most multi-tiered apps are dynamic and deployed in multiple locations so their components also will need to be updated. This is the fourth article in a series on running applications ...

I've actually gone pretty far down this rabbit hole myself. Where you eventually wind up is that it's very hard to account for all the discrepancies between people's systems, and so you need to keep ...