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3 Ways to optimize Cloud Run response times3 Ways to optimize Cloud Run response timesDeveloper Advocate

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A couple of weeks ago WooCommerce 4.6 was released. This is a minor release so everything should be backwards compatible. It brings updates to the WooCommerce Admin, the latest version of WooCommerce blocks and some fixes and localization improvements.… https://wiredgorilla.com/3-ways-to-optimize-cloud-run-response-times3-ways-to-optimize-cloud-run-response-timesdeveloper-advocate/

Comparing containerization methods: Buildpacks, Jib, and DockerfileComparing containerization methods: Buildpacks, Jib, and DockerfileDeveloper Advocate

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As developers we work on source code, but production systems don’t run source, they need a runnable thing. Starting many years ago, most enterprises were using Java EE (aka J2EE) and the runnable “thing” we would deploy to production was a “.jar”, “.war”, or “.ear” file. Those files consisted of the compiled Java classes and would run inside of a “container” running on the JVM. As long as your class files were compatible with the JVM and container, the app would just work. That all worked great until people started building non-JVM stuff: Ruby, Python, NodeJS, Go, etc. Now we needed another way to package up apps so they could be run on production systems. To do this we needed some kind of virtualization layer that would allow anything to be run. Heroku was one of the first to tackle this and they used a Linux virtualization system called “lxc” – short for Linux Containers. Running a “containe...