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Hello, I'm a ~10 years Android developer. These days I'm looking into building my own applications with Spring and Kotlin. Firebase doesn't fix my problems of data integrity hence I've coded the backend of my app too (which is sad considering how promising Firebase was)

I'm trying to find a way to deploy my servers. Currently I'm running my production and staging servers as two Hetzner instances running docker-compose stacks. But I've heard it's not a good solution since docker-compose can't really create a development environment as a copy of production (I don't know why this is bad.)

I've looked into Kubernetes but if you're not paying to someone to manage it for you (for example DigitalOcean or Amazon EKS) it's incredibly complex. Also if you chose to use a cloud provider to manage it for you every load balancer adds another item to the bill. I'm running a 3 node cluster on DigitalOcean now but it's too complex to even deploy a container to it.

So what are your thought on how a lone developer should deploy their APIs to production and staging?

Hi, I'm planning to build a 8 bit CPU using TTL logic gates. I'm having difficulty finding a circuit designer and emulator. Emulation is critical for me since I need to debug before implementing the circuit to lower the costs because logic gates are really expensive in my accessible markets.

Logisim was promising before but I had hard time using it.

Are there any good circuit emulators for my use case? Thanks.

What I've learnt at school is mostly centered around UMLs and Use Cases. I'm somewhat afraid that object oriented approaches to analysis will be off when I start to write code with Go. How do you do your project analysis?