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A retrospective of a second-year group project. Our brief was simple: create a system to manage the mentoring of new employees. On paper, it seemed easy enough: a standard user system, a clever algorithm to match mentees to mentors and crud for meetings. In reality, it was a disaster. We had 8 weeks to develop the system. We spent the first two weeks analysing requirements and producing a system design. Happy with our design, we were looking forward to turning clear, well-defined requirements into our final system....

Does this sound familiar? You make the perfect UI, add a few entries to the database and deploy. And then? CSS carnage. Once you start adding more and more entries to the database the UI falls apart. This has happened to me too many times before so I started looking for a solution Initial solution I started filling out my forms manually a bunch more times. This didn’t scale well, it quite frankly bored me....

This is a shortened version of a talk I gave to University of Warwick Computing Society. Introduction What is Docker? From the official Docker webpage: “[Docker lets you] package applications as portable container images to run in any environment consistently from on-premises Kubernetes to AWS ECS, Azure ACI, Google GKE and more” Docker is a tool which lets you bundle your application up into a self-contained image which can run in many environments with exactly the same results....