Theo @Fthear

Boisterous Arlington, VA Joined June 2013

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Phalgun @phalgooon

5 months ago

first in my bloodline to create JIRA tickets 👍

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Theo @Fthear

6 months ago

Dudes be hard as fuck until they see a French bulldog on an airplane

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Theo @Fthear

7 months ago

Accidentally bought a raspberry wheat beer instead of a normal wheat beer and now “Christmas is ruined” and “insurance won’t pay to remove my car from the living room”

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丂Ҝㄖㄖ爪卂 @Skooma_Beast

7 months ago

When the server goes down:

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Egg salad on your forehead *clap clap* egg salad on a napkin *clap clap* egg salad in your basement *clap clap* egg salad in your backpack *clap clap* egg salad on a Tuesday *clap clap* I fucking hate egg salad

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Theo @Fthear

8 months ago

I spent twelve years studying to be able to breath under water and when I finally got it I got amnesia three days later and forgot

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Theo @Fthear

8 months ago

Just learned at the ripe age of 26 that you are supposed to remove the corn husk before eating a tamale

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Jaketropolis @jaketropolis

8 months ago

this comic always kills me every time. i laugh like an idiot whenever i remember it

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terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog

8 months ago

product manager and developer working hard together to deliver a feature

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Theo @Fthear

9 months ago

@morchel He’s so cool

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trash @trashh_dev

9 months ago

going to start a blog. should i use kubernetes?

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Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops

9 months ago

Everyone uses Docker, but very few people know how debug a Docker container. No, I’m not talking about "docker logs", or "docker inspect", or "docker exec" I’m talking about "docker events". You probably don’t even know it exists. But it streams low-level, real-time event logs from the Docker daemon; not just your container. Imagine this: Your container is restarting in PROD. But it works on your machine. So like a real champ, you SSH into the server and start your usual debugging ritual: 👉 docker logs → nothing 👉 docker inspect → static 👉 docker exec → can't connect before it dies Sounds familiar, right? What next? Let me guess: You start tweaking the Dockerfile and doing consecutive docker run attempts. Because you’ve never heard of docker events. Now try this instead: docker events --filter container= Output: 2025-05-04T18:20:01Z container create ... 2025-05-04T18:20:02Z container start ... 2025-05-04T18:20:03Z container health_status: unhealthy ... 2025-05-04T18:20:04Z container kill signal=SIGTERM 2025-05-04T18:20:04Z container restart 👉And boom. Healthcheck failed → container killed → Docker auto-restarted it. And your app logs? They don’t show that. Because the healthcheck is outside your main process. Bonus tips: - Scope timeframes: docker events --since 30m --until "2025-05-04T18:00:00" - Want structured output? docker events --format '{{json .}}' - Need a full system timeline during an outage? Just remove the filter: docker events And before you tell me: "Well actually, in modern infra, you should use Grafana, Loki, Prometheus for observability…" Sure. Good luck debugging: - OOM kills before metrics are scraped - Missed volume mounts - Broken init containers - Sidecars that silently crash and restart docker events sees it all. In real time. If you're debugging Docker without it, You're not debugging, you're just guessing.