Testcontainers
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Testing code that depends on external systems like a DB, Redis, or Kafka usually splits into two paths. We either mock the dependency, or we boot a real instance and verify against it. Testcontainers is the library that…
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WSL2 — Linux on top of Windows
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Docker Basics
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ECS · Fargate — Managed Container Execution
5 minAfter building a container image, the next question is where to run it. One option is to run docker directly on EC2; another is to delegate container lifecycle, health checks, rolling deploys, and service discovery to a…