How to handle big repositories with Git

Git is a fantastic choice for tracking the evolution of your code base and collaborating efficiently with your peers. But what happens when the repository you want to track is really really big? In this post I’ll give you some techniques for dealing with it. Two categories of big repositories If you think about it […]

Code Approval Policies Explained

Professional teams that produce quality software and maintainable systems often employ a lightweight process to safeguard the introduction of new or updated code to their stable branches. A code approval policy is an agreement within a single team or an entire organization to follow a set of rules regarding how and when code is accepted […]

Smaller Java images with Alpine Linux

Sometimes I need to be hit in the head with an axe to find a solution to a problem that has been bugging me forever. A minimal Java container has been on my wish list since I found out about Docker and I’ve been writing about running Java in Docker for sometime already. Official Java images have historically […]

Collating repositories or grafting earlier history with Git

Let’s add another arrow to our already full quiver of version control tools and techniques. Do you know that the Linux kernel you clone normally contains only a part of its entire history? If you need access to its uninterrupted evolution since the first commit you have to “graft” a few separate repositories together chronologically. In this post I’d […]

Static Go binaries with Docker on OSX

Recently I’ve been writing a service in Go to enhance the projects dashboard on Bitbucket – if you haven’t heard we launched Atlassian Connect for Bitbucket as a way for anyone to build add-ons for three millions of Bitbucket users out there. Like many other Gophers I’ve been happily deploying my Go services using Docker. The process is smooth and […]