This month we have a good invitation from Deepthi Goguri, where she asks us about a technical problem. I think most of are technical people and we solve problems regularly. This is the same type of thing I ask people to blog on regularly, documenting their career.
It’s a great way to prepare for future interviews as well.
If you don’t blog, this is a good chance to start. Go to WordPress.com and get a free one. Then post on this topic.
If you want to host, ping me.
A Recent Technical Issue
My blog is full of stuff I run into, or my customers run into. I try to post short pieces on the things I’ve been dealing with. Quite a few of my posts are on Redgate products, sometimes me digging into a technical problem and finding a way to accomplish the requirement.
One of the more interesting ones recently was getting my Docker Desktop setup on a new machine. While installed the system was easy, I had to dig around and research a bit to try and understand how to use volumes. The documentation can be sparse, and it took some experimenting to decide that mapping specific folders in my compose file rather than trying to create permanent volumes was a better solution.
I also had to experiment a bit with a few settings and paths to decide that I needed a specific place on my disk to hold all my data, which makes it easy to manage over time. I also had to make the decision on naming the containers. It’s easy to lose track of ports, and it’s sometimes hard to remember how to get the port, so to keep it simple, I used naming that has the port name in the container name.
I wrote about the final process, which you can check out if you want to learn more.