Author: Milas Bowman
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Scaling Docker Compose Up
Docker Compose’s simplicity — just run compose up — has been an integral part of developer workflows for a decade, with the first commit occurring in 2013, back when it was called Plum. Although the feature set has grown dramatically in that time, maintaining that experience has always been integral to the spirit of Compose….
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Announcing Docker Compose Watch GA Release
Docker Compose Watch, a tool to improve the inner loop of application development, is now generally available. Hot reload is one of those engineering workflow features that’s seemingly minor and simple but has cumulative benefits. If you can trust your app will update seamlessly as you code, without losing state, it’s one less thing pulling…
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Docker Compose Experiment: Sync Files and Automatically Rebuild Services with Watch Mode
We often hear how indispensable Docker Compose is as a development tool. Running docker compose up offers a streamlined experience and scales from quickly standing up a PostgreSQL database to building 50+ services across multiple platforms. And, although “building a Docker image” was previously considered a last step in release pipelines, it’s safe to say…
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