We reduced a real Node.js production Docker image from 1.2GB to 78MB (the-practical-developer.online)

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We had issues running our Node app on alpine. Specifically the dns lookup for our API calls were taking several hundred milliseconds *every* time.

Switching to debian reduced it to microseconds.

Does anyone here know what I was doing wrong with alpine?

Surely this is ripped content?

https://sandeepbansod.medium.com/why-your-docker-container-i...

Ditch docker and use Golang to bring it to 4MB.

This website seems entirely filled with AI slop articles targeted towards software eng.

Good post. Using slim is the easiest and biggest impact change.