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Delphi and PostgreSQL from Scratch: A FireDAC CLI in Four Units
A complete, compiling Delphi command-line application that starts a PostgreSQL container, creates its own database, builds two tables, inserts rows, and reads them back — every unit, every Windows command, and the one DLL that trips up almost everybody.
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See all 100 →Isolating the Database: Web → Backend → Postgres in Docker (5/5)
Part 4 left us with a working Docker Compose stack: several services in one compose.yaml, finding each other by name on a shared network, with a named volume keeping Postgres data safe across restarts. It ran. It was tidy. And it had one…
- Delphi
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Docker Compose: Your Whole Stack in One File (4/5)
Part 3 left you fluent in images, tags, and repositories — you can pull a specific postgres:17 build, tag your own images, and push them somewhere your team can pull them back. You can start any single container with confidence. And that's…
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Docker Images, Tags, and Repositories Explained (3/5)
In Part 2 we did something that, if you stop and think about it, is a little bit magic. We typed postgres into a docker run command, and a few seconds later a fully configured PostgreSQL database server was up and answering queries from a…
- Delphi
- Docker
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PostgreSQL in a Container, Reached from Delphi FireDAC (2/5)
Part 1 got Docker Desktop installed, ran hello-world, and pinned down three words — image, container, registry — so they'd stop being intimidating. That was the warm-up. You can run containers now. Time to run something you'd actually want…
- Delphi
- Docker
- PostgreSQL
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Install Docker Desktop and Run Your First Container (1/5)
Picture the moment. You're deep in a Delphi client/server feature and you finally need a real backend to develop against — a Postgres database, say, or a Redis cache, or a message broker. On your own Windows dev machine. Right now. So you…
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- Docker
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From a C# Report Service to One Next.js Codebase in an Hour
There is a particular kind of deployment mistake you only make once. You ship the app, watch it come up green, close the laptop — and the next morning someone tells you the print button says the report server is unavailable. The app was…
- Next.js
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