Building assets inside the runtime image drags Node, the whole node_modules tree and a compiler toolchain into production — several hundred megabytes to produce one bundle. There is…
composer show –latest lists everything with a newer version, which on a mature project is forty lines that all look equally urgent and are not. The –minor-only list…
gzip on compresses every response as it is sent, which for a static bundle means doing the same CPU work for every visitor to produce an identical result.…
Each instruction produces a layer, and a layer is reused only if every instruction before it is unchanged. Copying the whole application before installing dependencies invalidates the dependency…
Two days lost to PHP extension mismatches. A container per service, what the shared-folder performance problem costs on a VM, and whether it was worth it.