Discover the best open-source platforms and tools to integrate within your business. There are also several tutorials for certain tools that you might find interesting.
Free web and graphics designer software… There are many open source software available that can support you remarkably as a web and graphic designer. Open source is not only valuable because of their price tag zero, but also supportive community spreads across the world. In present economic circumstances, open-source tools are an excellent place to…
Know how much an individual process or system-wide consume CPU or memory. As a sysadmin, you often have to deal with an incident where the application is slow or unresponsive due to high CPU/memory/network utilization. If the server host just one process, then it’s easy to find out when process consumes all the resources. However,…
There have been significant advances in the web scraping domain in the past few years. Web scraping is being used as a means for gathering & analyzing data across the web. To support this process, there have been numerous frameworks that have come up to satisfy different requirements for various use-cases. Let’s take a look…
We’ve come a long way since the first web server was released. Now there are so many more exciting options. Different projects have different needs, but the open source web server department was more or less a monopoly. For a long time, Apache was the only options, and handling high loads was a pain in…
Data is everything. And by extension, so are databases. Here are some fantastic open source options for your next kick-ass project. For a world dominated so long by database suits like Oracle and SQL Server, there seems to be an endless flurry of solutions now. One part of the reason is innovation fueled by Open…
The difference between mediocre products and great products is logging. Learn why it’s so, and how to tie it all together. Just like security, logging is another key component of web applications (or applications in general) that gets sidelined because of old habits and the inability to see ahead. What many see as useless reams…
An interesting report by Symantec reveals, 1 out of 10 websites had one or more malicious code. And, if you are using WordPress, then in another report by SUCURI shows, 49% of scanned websites were outdated. As a web application owner, how do you ensure your site is protected from online threats? Doesn’t leak sensitive…
One of the quickest and easiest ways to setup application high-availability and improve performance is to implement the load balancer (LB). On high-level, there are three types of load balancer. Hardware-based Cloud-based Software-based A hardware load balancer is a dedicated appliance to provide load distribution, and it’s relevant features. Some of the popular LB hardware…
Monitoring is essential to businesses to ensure a necessary system is up and running. Monitoring different aspects of your IT Infrastructure setup can cause a lot of tantrum if not done properly with the right tools. It doesn’t matter if you have a small or enterprise-level configuration, you can’t ignore the monitoring devices. Even if…
Protect your web applications with the firewall Thousands of websites get hacked every day due to misconfiguration or vulnerable code. Web Application Firewall (WAF) is one of the best ways to protect your website from online threats. If your website is available on the Internet, then you can use online tools to scan a website…
