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Container Solutions
Company blog · container-solutions.comprogrammingsystems
Container Solutions is the company blog at container-solutions.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2014, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 107 times, most often “RAFT Explained – Introduction to the Consensus Problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for Docker and container guidance, such as Dockerfile tips, multi-arch images, rolling updates and a RAFT consensus explainer. Many links are company hiring posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- RAFT Explained – Introduction to the Consensus Problem3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-18
- The future of configuration with Nix3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-08
- This is not the Serverless I Ordered2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-09
- Monitoring Performance in Microservice Architectures2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-04
- Dockerfile Tips from the Official Images2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-17
- Container Solutions Releases New Container Tech2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-01
- Is Docker Safe for Production?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-22
- All Hail the New Docker Swarm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-20
- Multi-arch Docker Images2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-28
What Hacker News says?
Container Solutions | https://container-solutions.com | Amsterdam, London, Zurich, REMOTE We are looking for engineers who want to join a supportive, relaxed and experimental environment where they can express their skills. Container Solutions is a premium software consultancy & research company that focuses on programmable infrastructure. We encourage entrepreneurial people; in the last year several projects that s…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Dockerfile Tips from the Official Images as a story · 44 points
HN discussionContainer Solutions is proud to release today its own container technology, Rocker. Rocker is an amalgamation of ideas and sources from both the Docker and Rocket projects. http://container-solutions.com/2015/04/container-solutions-i...
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on “List of April Fools' Day Announcements”Submitted Wrapping Desktop Apps with Docker as a story · 35 points
HN discussionAmsterdam, Container Solutions, http://container-solutions.com . Docker, Mesos, Microservices consultants. We are looking for the best developers and ops engineers to help our clients to deliver their software faster. Our main business is consulting in the Programmable Infrastructure/DevOps/Continuous Delivery area with the focus on Docker and Mesos. Our consultants almost never work more than 3-4 days a week at cli…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”Submitted Docker announces first plugins – Weave and Flocker as a story · 15 points
HN discussionContainer Solutions | Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Zurich | ONSITE | FULLTIME | container-solutions.com We help clients build confidence with cloud technologies and transition to microservices. We work with cloud native vendors on next-generation open-source tools. We're growing our Amsterdam (HQ) and Zurich offices and creating new engineering teams in Berlin and London. We are hiring for potential, not for skills. W…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted All Hail the New Docker Swarm as a story · 9 points
HN discussionTerraform manages infrastructure; if you also want to manage the installed software in a declarative and reproducible way consider NixOps (based on Nix/ NixOS): http://container-solutions.com/step-towards-future-configura...
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on “Terraforming 1Password”Submitted The Wheel of Fortune as a story · 9 points
HN discussioneveryone, please, read the following blog post before using any 'wow!'s in your next exclamation: RAFT Explained – Part 1/3: Introduction to the Consensus Problem http://container-solutions.com/raft-explained-part-1-the-con... "While Paxos can be described with a page of pseudo-code, our complete implementation contains several thousand lines of C++ code."
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on “Paxos in 25 Lines”Submitted Caveats of running Mesos cluster in Docker containers as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> The minimal Ubuntu 12.02 image is 627MB. Add your own application layer, and your container will most likely weight more than 1GB. I've read that using Debian (or if possible Busybox) helps in this area. See http://container-solutions.com/2014/11/6-dockerfile-tips-off... and http://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/building-good-docker-i... for tips. > Every time your application is updated, check the Gemfile md5 and…
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on “Is Docker ready for production?”Submitted Terraforming a HashiCorp Nomad cluster as a story · 8 points
HN discussionNix https://jakob.gillich.me/post/2016-03-22-self-contained-deve... https://ariya.io/2016/06/isolated-development-environment-us... You can easily automate provisioning and deployment with Nixops: http://container-solutions.com/step-towards-future-configura... But if you need to share/deploy what you worked on, in some place where you might not have Nix available, you can just as easily create Docker containers out…
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on “Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?”Submitted Surprise at Golang Thread Scheduling as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFor example with Docker Swarm: http://container-solutions.com/rolling-updates-with-docker-s... Some companies have GitLab workflows that also deploy successfull builds automatically, checks are there problems in that deploy, and rollbacks automatically when needed: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/473?autostart=fa... Such workflows could also be made with for example: - Huginn https://github.com/huginn/hu…
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on “Ask HN: Does anybody still use jQuery?”Submitted RAFT Explained – Introduction to the Consensus Problem as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI can even use manifest lists and have the same FROM for different archs: http://container-solutions.com/multi-arch-docker-images/ - that's what I meant saying that it's here. Just that it isn't advertised. The problem is, Docker official images (e.g. alpine, ubuntu, debian, python, node, etc) don't do this, so every Dockerfile that uses those as a base needs to be edited by hand, and you have to trust someone for u…
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on “Help Test Docker CE on Raspberry Pi / ARM”Submitted Is Docker Safe for Production? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionContainer Solutions also has a reference cheat sheet for security issues: http://container-solutions.com/content/uploads/2015/06/15.06...
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on “Is Docker Safe for Production?”Submitted Docker Security Cheat Sheet as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Container Solutions Releases New Container Tech as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docker and Container Provenance on Docker 1.3 Release as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weather Predictions straight from the cloud as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ken Owens, CTO of CiscoCloud shares his views on cloud native computing [video] as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Challenges in Microservice Implementations as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted MiniMesos 0.4.0 – Marathon Support as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimesos 0.9.0 – new cli commands, Marathon tokens and Mesos workshop as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Terraform-Mesos module explained as a story · 5 points
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