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Infrastructure

Writing a Dockerfile That Does Not Weigh 2GB

Jul 23, 2026

Why Docker images get bloated, how layer caching works in practice, and the specific techniques that produce small, fast, secure images without sacrificing developer experience.

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Infrastructure

CI/CD from Zero: A Working Pipeline with GitHub Actions

Jul 11, 2026

What CI/CD actually is, why it matters, and how to build a real pipeline from scratch using GitHub Actions that runs tests, builds artifacts, and deploys automatically.

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Infrastructure

Docker from Scratch: Images, Containers, and Registries

Apr 30, 2026

What Docker actually is under the hood - from a Dockerfile to a running container, and where registries fit in.

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Infrastructure

Linux for Developers Who Aren't Sysadmins

Apr 22, 2026

You don't need to be a sysadmin to be effective on Linux - you need to understand processes, file descriptors, permissions, and signals well enough to debug what goes wrong in production.

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