I recently wrote a log collector that uses Docker’s Container Logs API to subscribe output streams of containers. Most people don’t collect logs from containers this way, because they can use well known logging drivers that Docker supports, so it’s hard to find programs out there consuming this logs API. Read More →

Last month, Azure Container Registry has gone to public preview. Finally you can start uploading your container images to Azure! This fills an important gap in the containerized application lifecycle in the Azure ecosystem. It is also the first production service I participated in building and delivering at Microsoft. Read More →

If you ever found yourself writing a piece of code doing a HTTP POST request and then trying to test it with a real HTTP server, you might have heard of httpbin.org. Read More →

Go language is getting increasingly popular when it comes to writing microservices and commmand-line tools. It easily lets you compile a complicated application into a single binary, it can cross-compile from any OS to any other OS the Go compiler supports. Read More →

I have been craving to write about this since this is what I have been up to lately at work. I spent quite some time investigating the state of instance provisioning on each cloud provider and I thought I could share these here. Read More →

Nearly two years ago I published my side project Docker.DotNet —an open source C#/.NET client library for the Docker Remote API. Ever since, many teams and critical products at Microsoft as well as outside Microsoft started to depend on this library. Read More →

dexec is a small Go library allowing you to run commands inside Docker containers as if you are running them locally using the os/exec package. Read More →

If you are coding with Go and using json.Decoder to deserialize a JSON payload, then you are probably signing up for unexpected outcomes. You should use json.Unmarshal instead. Read More →