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C++ services and the build systems that make them reproducible.

• A Shared Multi-Stage Base Image for a C++ Service Fleet

  26 December 2025 cpp docker performance

  A dozen C++ services that each install and build the same HTTP framework and JSON library from source turn every Docker build into a multi-minute wait, for a change that touched one function. Here is a shared, versioned base image that compiles those dependencies once, and per-service Dockerfiles that only ever rebuild the service's own code against it.

• Migrating Redis Consumers from Python to C++ on Constrained Hardware

  23 December 2025 cpp python redis performance

  A dozen Python processes each blocked on a Redis stream look harmless until you add up their idle cost on a small device. Here is how to replace just that consume loop with a C++ equivalent, built and run through Docker so you can measure the trade-off yourself instead of taking anyone's word for it.

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