Almost a year after my first mentoring experience, I did the second round and this time experience was very different. The difference is so obvious that I had to review and change the tune of the last year post. Here are this year’s findings: Do Lean This year, my main concern was to stay lean. The first couple of hours the team tried to come up with a good problem statement, and value proposition....

As part of a project we are doing, we decided to have a proper and low maintainance continuous deployment pipeline. We just wanted something that works. The whole pipeline is depicted below: Push code to a specific GitHub branch. CircleCI to build and run unit tests Save docker images in AWS Elastic Container Registry AWS Elastic Container Service for container and cluster management. Runscope for running API tests. Slack for notifications....

Every year there are more than a couple of hackfests happening here in different cities, with different goals, themes, and sponsored by private, non-profit, public companies. They are targeting different segments of our society, from kids, students, college students to software developers. Some of them are free, open to everyone, and some of them are open to only cool kids and you may need to pay to spend your weekend with them....

In the previous part, we created a Docker host OS on Azure. Now that we have a host OS ready, we can create different containers on top of it. In this post we will create a mongodb container and host it on our azure host OS. There are multiple ways to do this. In here we are trying a more reusable way: Creating Dockerfile Building an image based on the Dockerfile Pushing the image to Docker Hub repository Run a new container on Azure Creating Dockerfile Dockerfile is like a step by step instructions file that tells docker how to create an image....