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Discussion on: Why do you use your language/stack?

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ohffs

The science project is the control system for a nanotechnology fabrication plant. It sounds way, way more exciting than it actually is ;-)

I've been using Docker with CI/testing (using Gitlab) for a while now - it's been pretty nice. Just taking the plunge to production is a bit more scary!

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Elliot Derhay

What's scary about using it in production?

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It's just a very different way of working. Having to think a lot more about storage, containers/apps appearing and disappearing, handling 'split brain' network issues etc. Compared with 'I have a VM with my app and DB' :-)