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Learn about Cloud Tech by Automating Your Home Setup with Puppet or Ansible

Learn about Cloud Tech by Automating Your Home Setup with Puppet or Ansible

You can learn a lot about cloud automation by doing some home automation. This is especially the case if you use linux based machines as your main computers at home. I highly recommend using any of the free distributions out there as they are free and a standard component for

Use encrypted cookie data to reduce database lookups

Use encrypted cookie data to reduce database lookups

If you're building your own application, at one point you're going to get into doing some sort of authorization. What developers have done before is store a randomized session token in your browser to keep track of a logged in session and associate login information in

Replace G Suite with your own mail server

Replace G Suite with your own mail server

For those of you that have signed up long ago for Google apps (which has become G Suite Legacy Free Edition [https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en] ), Google has announced last week that all G Suite Legacy Free users will need to start paying monthly subscription fees

Taking a look at benchmark results for AWS instances

Taking a look at benchmark results for AWS instances

In this post, we take a look at benchmark results for both single and multi core CPUs on AWS. We take an extract of published benchmark data provided by geekbench [https://www.geekbench.com/] via their browser [https://browser.geekbench.com/] for CPU benchmark data to take a closer look

Using Sanic as an asynchronous http server

Using Sanic as an asynchronous http server

If you are interested in learning to code your own http server in python. I recommend, dear reader a venture into using Sanic [https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/]. Sanic is a performant asyncronous http server that uses uvloop [https://uvloop.readthedocs.io/], which is a replacement for the asyncio

Skip VBA, use JavaScript for spreadsheets

Skip VBA, use JavaScript for spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are ubiquitous, they're used everywhere and probably the most beloved of them all is Microsoft's Excel. Spreadsheets have been a killer app for the last 40 years. Even before Excel, VisiCalc [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc] was the killer app that helped sell Apple

Backing up docker volumes for beginners

Backing up docker volumes for beginners

Docker volumes are the preferred way of managing persistent data with running docker containers. Some reasons for this include: 1. Not needing to worry about UID/GIDs between your OS and the system in the docker container. 2. The data in the docker container becomes isolated from your file system,