Tag: Servers
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Building stateful apps with serverless functions and Postgres
Posted on April 2, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tirumarai Selvan, Product Lead at Hasura, published this guide which explores the different ways to deal with application state when writing business logic in serverless functions. Author uses Postgres as the database when talking about these different approaches, and often use Hasura as one of the glue solutions between your serverless functions and your Postgres database.
Tags database microservices nosql servers distributed apis
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How to build Raspberry Pi UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)
Posted on January 4, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Tutorial by Zach Levine published on howchoo.com. He will teach you how to build your own Raspberry Pi UPS using some simple hardware. You can use this method to power a Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi Zero, or any other Pi.
Tags programming learning servers miscellaneous robotics
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High availability and scalable reads in PostgreSQL
Posted on January 1, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
A detailed primer on scaling PostgreSQL via streaming replication (with performance measurements) by Lee Hampton -- R&D Engineer at TimescaleDB. Despite popularity of PostgreSQL developers often still choose a non-relational (or "NoSQL") system over PostgreSQL, typically because of one reason: scale. Most developers still underestimate PostgreSQL native scalability.
Tags programming database servers distributed cio
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How military-style training may enhance your cybersecurity strategy
Posted on November 22, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Article by Michael Kassner about the facility offering realistic cybersecurity training modeled on the approach used by the military and first responders.
Tags ibm cloud devops infosec servers
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Do we really need swap on modern systems?
Posted on June 22, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Christian Horn from Red Hat Advanced Mission Critical program published this interesting blog. It is a short and straight to the point article describing how is swap used and how much of it is recommended today.
Tags programming servers
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Let's code a web server from scratch with NodeJS Streams!
Posted on June 16, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Ziad Saab tutorial exploring new technologies abound. In it you will go back to the basics and build a simple web server from scratch with NodeJS. You will review the structure of HTTP requests and responses and get an introduction to Node's Stream API.
Tags javascript programming nodejs servers
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Comprehensive and visual classification of wireless IoT protocols and network tech
Posted on October 23, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Nicolas Windpassinger detailed article with an overview of wireless IoT protocols and technologies (with some criteria to consider when making choices). Wireless IoT protocols, standards, solutions and technologies for connectivity and data communications come in many flavors for many potential IoT use cases.
Tags iot servers
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How Algolia Reduces Latency For 21B Searches Per Month
Posted on May 6, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Josh Dzielak, Developer Advocate as Algolia wrote interesting article about building search engine from scratch.
Tags search nginx servers
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Detecting Bots in Apache & Nginx Logs
Posted on March 12, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Mark Litwintschik put together this article to help server admins with separating bot and human-generated traffic in web server logs, which can be challenging.
Tags nginx servers infosec
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Near real-time monitoring charts with Spring Boot Actuator, Jolokia and Grafana
Posted on February 20, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Bruno Simioni who is systems architect and in charge of CI&T's software architecture strategy of commerce and retail businesses wrote short article about real time monitoring with Spring Boots.
Tags monitoring servers
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Dovecot - World's most popular email server praised as near-impenetrable
Posted on January 29, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
It isn't often that good news makes headlines, especially in the security world. Dovecot bucked the trend earlier this month, with a cybersecurity audit that praised the mail server as "near-impenetrable".
Tags servers infosec