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Oct 21, 2024

Docker Bake: Storing your Docker build config

Using Docker's Bake feature and file spec, you can now store your image build configs. Docker Buildx leverages Bake to build images in parallel, and can even pull config from your Compose file.

Oct 15, 2024

What is Engineering Enablement? (And Why it Matters)

Engineering Enablement (or Developer Enablement) teams help make developers' lives easier and boost their productivity. What areas benefit from their impact?

Sep 27, 2024

How to Improve DORA Lead Time for Changes

Lead time for changes is indicative of your overall DevOps performance. It measures how long it takes for code committed to a branch to hit production. There are a few easy process improvements that can steer this metric in the right direction.

Sep 26, 2024

How to Measure DORA Lead Time for Changes

Lead time for changes is one of the four key DORA metrics. It measures how long it takes for code committed to a branch to hit production. Once you know how to measure change lead times, it’s easier to improve them.

Sep 18, 2024

Want to Improve Engineering Velocity? Start with DevEx

DevEx might be the answer to your DORA initiatives. If you can maintain developer happiness and keep blockers at a minimum, you’ll start to notice shorter development lead times.

Sep 09, 2024

Dockerize a Django App with Poetry

Have a Django project with a PostgreSQL database and Poetry package management that you'd like to make portable and scalable? This guide will show you how to get your project running with Docker and Docker Compose within minutes.