Anca Iordache

How Kubernetes works under the hood with Docker Desktop

Anca Iordache
Mar 4 2022

Docker Desktop makes developing applications for Kubernetes easy. It provides a smooth Kubernetes setup experience by hiding the complexity of the installation and wiring with the host. Developers can focus entirely on their work rather than dealing with the...

Docker Compose: From Local to Amazon ECS

Anca Iordache
Mar 15 2021

By using cloud platforms, we can take advantage of different resource configurations and compute capacities. However, deploying containerized applications on cloud platforms is proving to be quite challenging, especially for new users who have no expertise on how to...

How to Deploy GPU-Accelerated Applications on Amazon ECS with Docker Compose

Anca Iordache
Feb 16 2021

Many applications can take advantage of GPU acceleration, in particular resource-intensive Machine Learning (ML) applications. The development time of such applications may vary based on the hardware of the machine we use for development. Containerization will...

Containerized Python Development – Part 3

Anca Iordache
Jul 28 2020

This is the last part in the series of blog posts showing how to set up and optimize a containerized Python development environment. The first part covered how to containerize a Python service and the best development practices for it. The second part showed how to...

Containerized Python Development – Part 2

Anca Iordache
Jul 21 2020

This is the second part of the blog post series on how to containerize our Python development. In part 1, we have already shown how to containerize a Python service and the best practices for it. In this part, we discuss how to set up and wire other components to a...

Containerized Python Development – Part 1

Anca Iordache
Jul 15 2020

Developing Python projects in local environments can get pretty challenging if more than one project is being developed at the same time. Bootstrapping a project may take time as we need to manage versions, set up dependencies and configurations for it. Before, we...

Awesome-Compose: Application samples for project development kickoff

Anca Iordache
Mar 25 2020

Software systems have become quite complex nowadays. A system may consist of several distributed services, each one providing a specific functionality and being updated independently. Starting the development of a project of such complexity is sometimes time...

How to deploy on remote Docker hosts with docker-compose

Anca Iordache
Mar 2 2020

The docker-compose tool is pretty popular for running dockerized applications in a local development environment. All we need to do is write a Compose file containing the configuration for the application’s services and have a running Docker engine for deployment....