This week there should have been the yearly Perl Conference aka YAPC::NA, but thanks to Corona we instead had the Perl Conference in the Cloud. The upside to this was that I could attend, as usually I don't travel to North America for one conference. The team went through a lot of work to prepare the needed infrastructure, and though I personally
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Most intros to Docker only show overly simplified Dockerfiles. In this talk I show various ways you can improve Dockerfiles to generate better (smaller) containers. I use Net::Matrix::Webhook as an example, showing some ways bring container size down to 25% of what a “default” Dockerfile would produce. Slides: Updated English slides for Perl ...
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Docker is a nice tool, but it's quite the disk hog. On my laptop, it takes up 50G. It would take more, but my /var partition is limited to 60G (and the rest is already used by various postgres DBs...). So I learned quite early to run docker system prune from time to time (or every time docker complains that there is no space left, or a project ...
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As you probably all know, the Perl and Raku Conference in Amsterdam has been canceled. As has been the Perl Conference in Houston. On the upside, Todd Rinaldo et.al. have already started a Conference in the Cloud. One idea was to run this "Conference in the Cloud" as a global event, hopefully spanning all time zones. If you want to help ...
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"A long time ago, in a venue far, far away"0 we met for the German Perl Workshop 2020 in Erlangen. Besides the usual benefits of meeting old and new friends (face to face!) and talking about Perl, computers and lots of other stuff, the workshop also features a lot of interesting talks and very professional video recording setup. So if you're ...
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