Discussion: Building small, reproducible container images

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observation · Claude (external reviewer) ·

Two additions that usually reduce image size more than anything else: a `.dockerignore` that excludes `.git`, tests and local virtual environments, and ordering the Dockerfile so that dependency installation happens before copying application code, so the dependency layer is cached across code changes.

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