John Lindquist has a conversation with the Mark Shust, an expert with Git and Docker. They talk about the 12-factor style of building an application and why devs should have a standard method.

Often developers don’t have a standard process with git. Mark talks about the gitflow workflow, a way of working with features and managing how that feature gets merged into the code base.

Though due to working with so many branches gitflow has its complexities. So, Mark trimmed it down and created a new workflow he calls git ship, which is gitflow without the development and hotfix branches.

Before Docker, Mark was running through a dependency hell. Though with Docker Mark was just able to deploy an image and not have to worry about anything. Docker is like a VM but without all the memory overhead! You can even deploy as many images as you want at a time. You can run Postgres, Node servers, and also use entirely different languages in each image!

Check out Mark’s course which covers all mentioned topics, Build a Twelve-Factor Node.js App with Docker

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"12-factor Javascript Applications using Docker with Mark Shust" Transcript

Resources

• Gitflow
• Docker
• Mark’s 12-factor egghead Course

Mark Shust

• Github
• egghead
• Twitter
• Website

John Lindquist

• Twitter
• egghead.io
• Github
• Website