Kubernetes Pod(s) Stuck in ContainerCreating
When spinning up a large number of new pods such as with a release or scaling event you may encounter pods stuck in a ContainerCreating state. To troublesh…
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Orchestrating RuboCop Diagnostics via Solargraph
As developers, we are constantly striving to improve our coding practices, maintain code quality, and increase productivity. In the Ruby ecosystem, two ind…
Read articleProfiling memory of a .NET application in a Windows Docker Container
At Mindbody, we made a recent push to containerize and ship our .NET framework applications to an AWS hosted Kubernetes cluster. We used Windows Container…
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The `TOP 1` Threat
Admittedly, 'Threat' is an extreme word to use but is worth the buzz, right? This article stems from a comment a coworker posted on a repository I also mon…
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Pre-Rendered Webpages and Jamstack: An Introduction
The use of a SPA application for website development has reigned supreme for several years now and before that MVC web applications were all the rage. No d…
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Terminals on Windows - A 7-Year Search
If you had asked me in 2012 to describe the Windows developer experience in 2020 I would have never used the adjective, appealing. Microsoft is embracing (…
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Deserializing Derived Types in a .NET Core 3 API
As your .NET API matures you may find it lacks the ability to operate on a request that has a resource with multiple possible forms. As a primitive example…
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