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What a container is, why it exists, and how it differs from an image and from a VM. Four small experiments you can run in five minutes.
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What Docker actually does to your program, measured on Docker 29: PIDs, build cache, shutdown signals and the OOM killer.
Containers from zero
From “it works on my machine” to exit code 137, in two posts.
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