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Thomas Uhrig
Personal blog · tuhrig.deprogrammingsystems
Thomas Uhrig's personal blog at tuhrig.de covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “My Logging Best Practices (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked from an HN thread on setting up a JRuby, Rails and PostgreSQL project with Docker and Fig. The only comment explains Docker as a lightweight, production-matching alternative to VMs and does not judge the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal blog about software development since 2010
Most-linked posts?
- My Logging Best Practices (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-21
What Hacker News says?
Docker is similar to a VM, only without all the excess overhead. That very same docker container, could be deployed to production, assuring that your production and dev environments are identical(same web server, same db version, etc). A docker container can be spun up in a matter of seconds on a linux machine. If you're using OS X, it will require a VM to run docker images(see boot2docker), but even with this, it's…
Comment linking /docker-vs-heroku/
on “Get a JRuby + Rails + PostgreSQL Project Running in Minutes with Docker and Fig”Submitted My Logging Best Practices (2020) as a story · 380 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Logging Best Practices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Difference between save and export in Docker as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
