I’ve recorded a video on how to minimize the development turnaround times with Watch and Deploy (WAD) by Adam Bien and Docker containers. The WAD tool watches for file changes and will re-build and re-deploy our applications to an auto-deployment directory. We’ll see how that approach can be integrated into containers that are created by the same Docker images that run in production.
Besides the news around the fast turnaround with Quarkus, which is a very interesting project, it’s possible to have a good development experience solely with Java EE and application servers that deploy quickly. The WAD tool watches for any changes that we make in the project and re-deploys our applications. If you run your application in Docker containers, you can and, in fact, should use the same Docker image locally that you will later run in production.