#devops

You run docker images and see your Node.js API sitting at 1.2GB. The same five mistakes appear in every bloated Docker image. Here's what they are and the exact changes that took a real 1.24GB image to 78MB without touching a single line of application code.

It was a Thursday afternoon. One git rebase followed by git push --force wiped three days of work across four developers. Here's exactly what happened, how we recovered every commit, and the rules we put in place so it never happens again.