Taking a Dockerised API Live: Every Step, and Everything That Broke(Part 4&5)
Part 4 — What I would tell myself before starting Suspect the step before the one that failed. Nearly every error here appeared downstream of its cause. Read the status code, not just the body. A time
Taking a Dockerised API Live: Every Step, and Everything That Broke( Part 2&3)
Part 2 — Three decisions to make before deploying Don't share an existing database server The server already had a PostgreSQL container, and reusing it was tempting. Don't, if your application depends
Taking a Dockerised API Live: Every Step, and Everything That Broke(Part 1)
I recently took an API from "works perfectly on my laptop" to "live on its own domain over HTTPS". On the laptop it was in good shape: hundreds of automated tests passing, static analysis clean, and a
