Docker: Containing Madness
Recently we had one of our important clients come to us with a node.js application they needed updated. I’m not sure of the circumstances surrounding this application but it looked and felt like a ball of spaghetti was thrown in my face. I punted the modifications to another developer in favor of doing the deployment with docker and supervisord. The Problem This node.js application has many assumptions about libraries and file locations that make me cringe, for example it simply won’t work unless packages are installed globally and locally....