Serverless, Containers, and VMs: Pick Your Poison (and Your Bill)

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Put me in an architecture meeting and I’ll bet you anything that within ten minutes someone says “what matters is business value”… and by minute fifteen you’re all arguing whether you’re Team VM, Team Container, or Team Serverless like you’re sorting yourselves into Hogwarts houses.

The funny thing is, all three options are just different ways of answering the same question: “Where the heck is my code going to run, and who’s stuck dealing with the mess?”

Docker basics: from 'it works on my machine' to actually understanding what you're doing

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Docker is one of those tools that everyone “uses” and almost nobody bothers to understand. Which is a shame, because once you get it, it’s a game-changer as a developer: you go from “it works on my machine” to “it works on my machine, on yours, in CI, and in production — and I can prove it.”

The goal of this tutorial is simple: if you’ve never touched Docker, by the end you should be able to navigate the core concepts comfortably, run containers, work with volumes, and understand what you’re doing. Not blindly copy-pasting commands like a trained monkey, but knowing why they work.

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Serverless, Containers, and VMs: Pick Your Poison (and Your Bill)

Docker basics: from 'it works on my machine' to actually understanding what you're doing