With Devbox 0.4.3, we've fully shifted our environment generation from using standard Nix expressions to using Nix Flakes, a new experimental feature in the Nix ecosystem. While this is mostly a behind the scenes change to Devbox, we're excited about the potential this unlocks, and we wanted to

This release adds a few major new features to Devbox: * Devbox Global lets you add packages to include across all your Devbox Shells * Improved Shell Env ensures better consistency in your Devbox environment across shells and commands Devbox Global Our customers tell us that while they love Devbox's isolated, reproducible

We are pleased to announce our end of the year release, Devbox 0.2.0.  This release is one of our biggest yet, packed with features designed to help developers get up and running with Nix based dev environments. Some of the features included in this release are: 1. Automatic

Today, we're announcing the open-source release of Launchpad, a new CLI tool for deploying applications and scheduled tasks on Kubernetes. Launchpad provides a Heroku-like deployment experience on any cluster. Users can build, publish, and deploy cloud applications in one step without writing pages of Kubernetes config. We're also announcing the

TLDR; At Jetpack.io, our Docker development container initialization script used to be like this: image: ubuntu:22.04 ... # Install Go. wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://golang.org/dl/go1.19.linux-amd64.tar.gz -O go.tar.gz sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go.tar.gz echo "export

How we created Devbox to solve our Docker dev environment woes at Jetpack.io

We’re excited to showcase the next release of Devbox with important fixes and new features. We’re overwhelmed by the community support and interest in this project, so this release also includes important fixes contributed by you. If you'd like to add new features to Devbox, we welcome Pull

Your app is starting to pick up and get traffic! When you first launch, traffic is usually slow and it’s totally fine to have everything on one machine at the beginning. As you grow and more people hear about your application, traffic starts to get spikier and you have

Another day, another manual database cleanup. It’s not that it’s hard to do, it’s worse, it’s boring and tedious. Why not take the software developer’s way out and spend some time to find a way to automate the solution? Using Python, Kubernetes, and Cron Jobs

If you commonly use Python, you’ve probably noticed one of the biggest disadvantages of the language, it has no true parallelism. Python’s Global Interpreter Lock [https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock] (GIL) prevents true parallelism. However, we can achieve a level of concurrency and virtual parallel computing using