Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases
by cookiecaper on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:12PM
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> For example, I can make programs and package them in Docker containers and run them that way, but I don't know how I'd play with Kubernetes in a realistic fashion.
Alternately, you'd take advantage of $CLOUD_PROVIDER's initial signup credit and start cloud instance equivalents.
Nowadays most things have good virtual environments floating around (you can even download virtualized mainframes if you want). A little bit of time tinkering with such environments will take you surprisingly far -- especially in fields like network engineering, where even most professionals don't know how to experiment.
Minikube: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/
Alternately, you'd take advantage of $CLOUD_PROVIDER's initial signup credit and start cloud instance equivalents.
Nowadays most things have good virtual environments floating around (you can even download virtualized mainframes if you want). A little bit of time tinkering with such environments will take you surprisingly far -- especially in fields like network engineering, where even most professionals don't know how to experiment.