Container supported development learning path

[mikesir87]

Description

Creation of a new learning path focused on container-supported development.

The videos are still being edited and uploaded, hence the reason this is starting as a draft. However, the text content can be reviewed and approved while we wait for the videos.

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• Technical review
• Editorial review
• Product review

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[dvdksn]

Some open questions/thoughts

With the new layout, where the modules are pages as opposed to accordions, I get the feeling that something is missing. Compare them to the concepts, where the videos were accompanied by "explanation" and "try it out" sections.

I wonder if we should try and add similar content to the modules in this guide, to make it more complete? I realize this is a tall order. But I feel like it would help give the guide more substance.

The WireMock and pre-seeding databases guides seem like they're quite similar to the "runnig databases locally" and "mocking API endpoints" modules in this series. I wonder if we should try and consolidate?

[mikesir87]

@dvdksn Good question about the content with the shift.

The idea was that this guide would serve as a starting point to think about using containers for development, helping be a response when someone asks "Why should I use containers in local development if my app runtime isn't containerized?". With that, the thought was to have these introduce the concept and do various demos, but then point to the actual use case guide to learn how to do it yourself (intro vs how-to). Once those are merged, I was going to add links to the pages to point to those guides to make it easier to follow the journey.

Does that make sense? I'm open to ideas/feedback too!

[dvdksn]

@mikesir87 thanks, yes that makes sense.

I wonder if the multi-page format is appropriate here, or if we should try and consolidate it to a single page. Given that there isn't very much text content here. Do you have a preference?

Sorry about the bikeshedding 😅 Still figuring out the information architecture with these new content types we now have.

[mikesir87]

@dvdksn I'm open to ideas and trying out different things. I split it to keep it similar to the other migrated learning paths. We can either add some more text to each of the videos or merge it all back together. Do you have a preference?

[dvdksn]

I don't mean to block this guide, just to raise the observation. I'm fine with keeping it like it is for consistency's sake; we can put a pin in this for the future. If we decide to change the format we should do it across the board anyway.

[craig-osterhout]

I have nothing to add that David hasn't. I have no comments on the content itself, but I get the same feeling when looking at the page. The page design feels empty with just a couple sentences and a video on a whole page.
The old layout that had a single page with the intro and multiple videos felt more substantial with the same content.
+1 to trying a different layout for the learning paths as a whole. Not a blocker to me.

[dvdksn]

Thanks @mikesir87 I think this looks better! A couple extreme nits but other than that LGTM. Let me know if it's ready to ship (pr is still in draft)

[mikesir87]

Good to go on my end! Removed the draft status @dvdksn 👍