Devagnostic

The Docker Desktop for Windows is no longer free for commercial usage, or at least in many cases. If your local development environment is Windows, and you're looking for an alternative, this article is for you. "Docker Desktop remains free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open-source projects.". Unfortunately, containerization is a foundation of most enterprise-level projects these days, which size causes the licence issue.  The commercial doesn't cost an arm and leg, even though it builds unnecessary concern and limitations. Even if you use the WSL2 Linux image, you need to use the docker engine, which is a part of the Docker Desktop for Windows. Podman as Docker And here is the beautiful moment when Podman comes into the play. It's a root-less and demon-less solution, fully compatible with docker. If you have been ever concerned about the demon working in the...

While exploring the problem of migration to the cloud I've realized that it would be worth putting some light on the data owning issue. This is when the Azure Purview comes in. I'm not a Chief Data Officer, but I if had been the one, would have been asked some fundamental questions about my data - what is the source, how the ETL/ELT process looked like, who own the data ... and, what is the data linage..., and finally what all those data mean.  All those questions are very important these days. Those might be triggered by regulatory requirements (data lineage, anonymisation), data scientists implementations (Where is my source dataset used to train the model?), internal auditors or the business itself, who struggles with defining the common domain models for years. By working for one of my client's I've faced the problem of defining the Product Master application, which would be a golden source of domain model definitions across the company. The issue was too big to be ...