Infrastructure testing gets expensive when every failed run pollutes the next one. Local VM snapshots give deployment tools the undo button they should have had.
Traditional multi-stage Docker builds for Rust applications are painfully slow. By switching to cargo-zigbuild for cross-compilation on the host machine, we slashed our build times …
If you changed docker-compose.yml and only restarted the container, Docker did exactly what you asked: it restarted the old container definition.
Static proxy_pass hostnames can leave Nginx pinned to stale IPs in dynamic infrastructure. The fix is runtime DNS resolution with resolver and a variable.
It can easily take you longer to deploy a django app than it took you to develop. Trust me. I finally figured out a very smooth and easy way to deploy to any VPS of your choice …