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Introduction Hello to all passionate learners, tech enthusiasts, and budding system administrators! I'm thrilled to announce the release of my latest eBook: "Introduction to Linux". After mo...
Introduction Hey folks, I'm super stoked to announce my brand-new eBook: "Introduction to Terraform: From Zero to Hero". This project is something I'm genuinely excited about, born from coun...
Introduction DigitalOcean Spaces is an object storage service that allows you to store and serve large amounts of data. It is a reliable and flexible solution for developers, especially when integrate...
Introduction When your application or website starts to receive more traffic, you'll need to think about how to scale your database to handle the additional load. There are two main ways to scale a da...
Introduction When building a modern, responsive website, navigation plays a crucial role in user experience. A sticky or affix navigation bar remains visible at the top of the screen as users scroll, ...
Introduction Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has become a popular choice for Python developers due to its flexibility, extensibility, and user-friendly interface. One of the key features of VS Code is it...
Introduction Structs in Rust are a way to create custom data types that group together related pieces of data. This tutorial will introduce you to the basics of structs in Rust, including defining, in...
Introduction Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a popular, lightweight, and powerful source code editor developed by Microsoft. It has extensive support for JavaScript and TypeScript, making it the go-to...
Introduction Building and testing a real-time fraud detection application requires a continuous stream of realistic data. But generating that data can be a challenge. That's why we recently created th...
Introduction In the world of Git, it's not uncommon for developers to find themselves in a situation where their local repository has diverged from the remote repository. This can happen due to accide...
What is Rust? Rust is a systems programming language. It is designed to be fast, reliable, and maintainable. Rust was started in 2006 by Graydon Hoare at Mozilla Research. It was originally designed t...
Introduction Laravel Voyager is a great open-source admin panel for Laravel. It is also the admin panel currently used in Laravel Wave which is a Laravel SaaS starter kit. In this article, you will le...
Introduction Are you having trouble with a process locking port 3000 (or essentially any other port) on your Mac? Here's how you can find and kill the process! Finding the process To find the process,...
Introduction Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pat...
Introduction PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source database system. It is a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on the SQL language. PostgreSQL is one of the most popular database syst...
Introduction The jsonb_array_elements function returns a set of rows, one for each element of the input array. The input array can be a top-level array or a nested array. In this tutorial, we will lea...
Introduction Hacktoberfest is a month-long event where people are awarded for contributing to open source projects 🙌. In order to participate you need to sign up here and then Submit four pull request...
Introduction npm is a package manager for Node.js. It is used to install and manage packages for your JavaScript projects. npm is open source and was initially released in 2009. The npm repository is ...
Introduction Similar to a Bash script where you can pass arguments to a script using the $1 syntax, you can also pass arguments to a Node.js app. In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to pass arg...
Introduction WebSockets allow you to send and receive data over a network without having to use a traditional HTTP protocol. Using WebSockets, you can build a real-time application. For example, you c...
Introduction This is a self-contained example of a real-time chart powered by Deno, Web Sockets, Chart.js, and Materialize. Deno is a simple and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses ...
Introduction Materialize is a streaming database for real-time analytics. It was launched in 2019 to address the growing need for the ability to build real-time applications easily and efficiently on ...
Introduction Materialize is a streaming database for real-time analytics. It was launched in 2019 to address the growing need for the ability to build real-time applications easily and efficiently on ...
Introduction This is a self-contained example of a real-time notification app with Deno, Materialize and Discord. Deno is a simple and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8. Deno, ...
Introduction Laravel is a popular PHP framework for building scalable, high-performance web applications. In this article, we will learn how to use serverless Redis to scale Laravel applications by st...
Introduction LogicLoop allows you to write rules in SQL and then run them against your data and trigger different actions based on the results. LogicLoop also allows you to create and share dashboards...
Introduction This is a self-contained demo using Materialize to process orders and display the delivery status and coordinates in real-time. Prerequisites Before you get started, you need to make sure...
This is a simple Node.js URL shortener app that uses Cloudflare Workers. The app is powered by Cloudflare Workers and Upstash Redis for storing data and Kafka for storing the click events along with M...
Introduction This is a self-contained demo using Materialize. This demo would show you how to use Materialize with Airbyte to create a live dashboard. For this demo, we are going to monitor the orders...
Introduction ❗️ This demo includes examples for an unsupported version of Materialize (0.26.x). ❗️ Managing your schema migrations is essential for any application. In this tutorial, we will show yo...
Introduction Minimizing downtime during any deployment is a key part of any successful deployment strategy. There are many ways to achieve this, and blue-green deployments are one of them. Using blue-...
Introduction In some cases, you might want to choose the output value based on column values directly in your SQL statement. In this article, we will explain how to use the CASE expression in SELECT S...
Introduction In this guide, we will walk you through how to use Laravel WebSockets. We will be using the Laravel WebSockets package which is a great replacement for Pusher. The Laravel WebSockets pack...
Introduction Server-sent events (SSE) is a way to send data to the browser without reloading the page. This allows you to use streaming data and build real-time applications that can be used in a vari...
Introduction This is a self-contained demo of FastAPI and Materialize. This demo project contains the following components: FastAPI: A fast, modern, and feature-rich framework for building APIs with...
Introduction Redpanda is a Kafka-compatible event stream platform written in C++. It comes with a simple command-line interface called rpk that lets you interact with the platform. In this tutorial, w...
Introduction Laravel is a PHP framework for web development. It was created by Taylor Otwell and was initially released as an open-source project in June 2011. Since its initial release, Laravel has g...
Introduction Laravel was created by Taylor Otwell and was initially released in June 2011. It is an open-source PHP framework that is used to build web applications. It is without a doubt the most pop...
Introduction There are several ways to handle data in a microservice architecture, in this article we will cover the approach of having a separate database for each microservice. Prerequisites This ar...
Introduction Materialize is a streaming database that takes data coming from different sources like Kafka, PostgreSQL, S3 buckets, and more and allows users to write views that aggregate/materialize t...
Introduction Event streams provide you with a way to send events to the client without having to reload the page. This is useful for things like updating the user interface in real-time changes are ma...
Introduction This is a self-contained demo using Materialize to process data IoT devices data directly from a PostgreSQL server. The demo builds up on the How to build AdonisJS API to store your Raspb...
Introduction This is a self-contained demo using Materialize. This demo shows you how to use dbt together with Materialize. For this demo, we are going to monitor the reviews left by users on a demo w...
Introduction I have a few Raspberry Pi devices at home and I wanted to be able to collect the data from their temperature sensors on a regular interval and store that data in a Postgres database. Late...
Introduction This is a self-contained demo using Materialize. This demo would show you how to use Materialize to join MySQL and Postgres in a live materialized view. For this demo, we are going to mon...
Introduction If you have ever worked with MySQL and had to create your table structure, you have probably noticed that the DATETIME and TIMESTAMP data types are quite similar at a first glance as they...
Introduction In this tutorial, we are going to build a web application using AdonisJS and integrate it with Materialize to create a real-time dashboard based on streaming data using standard SQL. Mate...
Introduction In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to find the duplicate values in a SQL table with a single SQL query. Let's say that we have a table called users with the following data: SELECT...
Introduction If you've ever used SQL, you probably know that UNIONs can be quite confusing at first. In this quick post we are going to learn what the difference between UNION and UNION ALL is! Differ...
Introduction In this tutorial, I will show you how Materialize works by using it to run SQL queries on continuously produced nginx logs. By the end of the tutorial, you will have a better idea of what...
Introduction If you've ever used SQL, you probably know that JOINs can be very confusing. In this quick post we are going to learn what the difference between JOIN and INNER JOIN is! Difference betwee...
Introduction In some cases if you have a really large .sql file, it is best to import it via the command line. You might need to do this in case that you are using a tool like PHPmyAdmin, which more o...
Introduction In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to add a default value to an existing column in MySQL. Prerequisites You always need to be careful, when changing the structure of an existing c...
Introduction No matter if you are a data analyst or a system administrator when working with unstructured files in Linux there are a set of commands that would help you a lot in your daily tasks. In t...
💡 Introduction to Docker This is an open-source introduction to Docker guide that will help you learn the basics of Docker and how to start using containers for your SysOps, DevOps, and Dev projects. ...
Introduction By creating a repository with the same name as your GitHub username (eg. bobbyiliev/bobbyiliev) you actually create a special repository. Its README.md will appear on your public profile....
Introduction With the ever growing data volumes and demands, the data engineering career has been one of the fastest growing jobs for the past few years. According to the 2021 Stack Overflow survey, d...
Introduction No matter if you are a DevOps/SysOps engineer, developer, or just a Linux enthusiast, you can use Bash scripts to combine different Linux commands and automate boring and repetitive daily...
Introduction Materialize is a streaming database for real-time analytics and applications. In this tutorial I will show you how to connect Metabase to your Materialize instance in order to quickly visualize our data.
Introduction to Docker It is more likely than not that Docker and containers are going to be part of your IT career in one way or another. In this blog post series I'll cover the following: What are...
Introduction Hacktoberfest is a month-long event where people are awarded for contributing to open source projects 🙌. In order to participate you need to sign up here and then Submit four pull request...
Introduction No matter if you are a DevOps/SysOps engineer, developer, or just a Linux enthusiast, you will most likely have to use SQL at some point in your career. The guide is suitable for anyone w...
Introduction PestPHP was created by Nuno Maduro who is also one of the Laravel core team members. PestPHP is an open-source PHP Testing framework created with simplicity in mind. PestPHP is being real...
Introduction Optimizing your MySQL service is a great way to improve your Laravel application's overall performance. Of course, it is important to follow Laravel Eloquent's best performance practices ...
Introduction There are many reasons why you would like to keep a process running even if you close your SSH session. Here are a few examples: Your working day is going to be over soon and you are run...
This is an open-source Laravel Tips and Tricks eBook that is a collection of my own notes that I've put together for myself throughout the years. You would more likely than not need many of those tips...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction Working with date and time could be pretty challenging. Luckily we have the Carbon package that makes this super easy! Carbon is a simple PHP API extension for DateTime. You can find more...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction Hardcoding the domain name in your Blade files or in your controllers is not a good practice. If you ever decided to change your website's domain name, you would have to manually go over ...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction The Blade templating engine has been a real game-changer for me. Blade makes it working with PHP and HTML a breeze. It allows you to use plain PHP code directly in your template. In most ...
Introduction Adding columns or tables to your database manually could be an intimidating process and would more often than not lead to database inconsistencies between your different environments. The...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction A fork bomb (also known as a rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service attack that consists of a process that constantly replicates itself to exhaust all available system resources, slowing do...
Need to get some work done? Let's be productive together! You can use this video as a timer for your Pomodoro sessions. The idea behind the Pomodoro sessions is to separate your tasks into small 25 m...
Introduction In Unix systems, the shell is a command-line interpreter. It provides a command-line user interface (CLI). The shell is a scripting language that you could use to write scripts like any o...
This is an open-source introduction to SQL guide that will help you learn the basics of SQL and start using relational databases for your SysOps, DevOps, and Dev projects. No matter if you are a DevOp...
Introduction Hello everybody! Welcome to this Introduction to Git and GitHub video series, where you will learn the basics of Git and start using it for your day-to-day tasks. My name is Bobby and I'v...
Introduction The other day, I was setting up a local development environment for an existing project when I encountered the 'Please provide a valid cache path' error. As the error itself is not very d...
Introduction If you have some experience with Linux, you are probably quite familiar with environment variables. In Linux, you could check the available environment variables with the printenv command...
Introduction Composer is without the go to dependency manager for PHP. Composer is a command line tool that you can use to install packages to your projects and also update and manage existing package...
Introduction Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS for short, in most cases, is a platform that provides a specific service on a monthly or yearly subscription plan. Popular SaaS products are Netflix, Spotif...
Introduction Signed routes allow you to create routes accessible only when a signature is passed as a GET parameter. This could be used for sharing a preview of a draft article or any other route that...
Introduction Response macros allow you to create a custom response which you could later on re-use in different routes and controllers. This is quite beneficial in order to reduce code duplication. Yo...
Introduction In some cases, when you have too many Controllers in your Laravel project, your app/Http/Controllers directory might get cluttered with too many Controllers. To keep things more organized...
💡 Introduction to Git and GitHub This is an open-source introduction to Git and GitHub guide that will help you learn the basics of version control and start using Git for your SysOps, DevOps, and Dev...
Introduction It would be really intimidating if you had to start from scratch and reinvent the wheel every time you were to start a new project. Luckily in 2021 there is a vast number of brilliant PHP...
Introduction Laravel comes with many convenient tools out of the box, which makes your life as a developer much more enjoyable. One of the best Laravel features is the database migrations which essent...
I would be running the commands on a Digital Ocean droplet running Ubuntu 18.04. Prerequisites If you don't have a DigitalOcean account yet, you can sign up for DigitalOcean and get $100 free credit v...
Introduction If you are getting started with programming, there are countless articles with ideas for projects that you could build, but not that many project ideas for purely Ops-related roles. For a...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction In some cases, you might want to reset the password for your Laravel user quickly. Another reason might be that you could be having problems with your emails, and the reset password email...
Introduction Git is without a doubt the most popular version control system for tracking changes in source code out there. The original author of git is Linus Torvalds who is also the creator of Linux...
Introduction In 2021 with great blogging platforms like the Developer Blog, you can save yourself the hassle of building your own blog from scratch. However, if you are planning to build a Laravel blo...
Introduction Hello everybody! Welcome to this Introduction to bash scripting video series, where you will learn the basics of bash scripting and start creating some awesome scripts! My name is Bobby a...
Introduction A few months ago I wrote an open-source eBook on how to get started with Bash Scripting. This is when I came across a tool called Ibis created by Mohamed Said who is a Developer at Larave...
Introduction Git is a huge reason why the web dev community is so awesome. You can join an open-source project and add some amazing stuff to it. By committing your code and pushing it, you can share y...
Introduction I am a supporter of the opensource movement and I truly admire people like Eddie Jaoude, Matt Cowley and all other open-source maintainers who work hard every day so that we could have aw...
Introduction Many times, I've been in a situation where I want to share a recording of my screen with a colleague. Still, then the video size would be too large to share over email, or if you send it ...
Introduction Laravel Livewire, created by Caleb Porzio, is a full-stack framework that allows you to add reactivity to your Laravel applications. If you are just getting started with Laravel Livewire,...
Introduction OOP stands for Object-Oriented Programming and it is used by almost all of the major programming languages. For example, PHP, Phyton, Java, C#, and many more. If you don't know what OOP i...
Introduction The Laravel Enlightn was developed by Miguel Piedrafita and Paras Malhotra . It is an artisan command-line tool that checks your code and provides you with actionable recommendations on i...
Introduction In case that you are posting content on DevDojo or if you are using the DevBlog feature on the DevDojo site, you might want to cross-post your content on other platforms like DEV.to. Havi...
Introduction Probably everyone that uses a Linux OS is familiar with what nano is. But if you aren't aware, don't worry. Nano is a Unix and Linux operating system command line text editor. What this m...
Introduction The $this keyword is one of the most important and helpful things in PHP OOP(Object Oriented Programming). And unfortunately, it's one of those things that get overlooked. Many people may...
Introduction Laravel provides a wrapper for the Guzzle HTTP client. It allows you to quickly make HTTP requests to communicate with external APIs. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Larav...
Introduction 2020 was an extraordinary year. For some, it was a terrible year, for others, it was a fantastic year. Personally, for me, it was a bit of both. The stuff I learned this year about myself...
Introduction The Laravel Migrations allow you to manage your database structure by creating new tables and columns. The Laravel migrations are like version control for your database. In this tutorial,...
Introduction One of the cool things about using Chrome as your default browser is all the extensions you can use. Google Chrome extensions are programs created by different developers that change your...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction Laravel is a fantastic open-source PHP framework that is designed to develop web applications following the model-view-controller scheme. And now here comes Laravel Sail. Laravel Sail was...
Introduction These days there are so many career choices to take in the programmer world. But one of the most successful and important ones is Web Development. There are so many companies out there th...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
Introduction Whether you are a newcomer to programming, or an experienced one, you have to know how to use Git. Most of the projects that a small or big group of developers work on are done through Gi...
Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any othe...
💡 Introduction to Bash Scripting Ebook/Guide I have just released an open-source introduction to Bash scripting ebook/guide that will help you learn the basics of Bash scripting and start writing awes...
Introduction Stress is a natural reaction of our body when we face situations we can't cope with (for example, that one piece of code you can't figure out). Unfortunately, it can be a little overwhelm...
Introduction Laravel is a great PHP framework that allows you to use Blade Templates for your frontend. Blade is a very powerful templating engine provided with Laravel that does not restrict users fr...
Introduction Every PHP developer should be familiar with how to use frameworks. Frameworks help make the process of development easier by simplifying common practices used in developing major web proj...
Introduction Laravel 8 was released on September 8th along with Laravel Jetstream. If you are not familiar with Jetstream, you should check out this introduction tutorial here: What is Laravel Jetstre...
INTRODUCTION No matter how old you are and what job experience you have, job interviews are always stressful. If you are looking for your dream job during COVID-19, you may find this article useful. I...
Introduction Laravel routes allow you to map your URLs to specific functionality, for example, a method in a controller or directly to a specific Blade view. For example, if you visit yourdomain.com/c...
Introduction Encryption is the process of encoding information so that it can not be understood or intercepted. Encryption has been used long ago before computers were invented; actually, the first kn...
Introduction Discord is a messaging platform, and its popularity has been growing exponentially! It is a great alternative to Slack. Webhooks is one of the awesome features of Discord that allows you ...
Introduction Have you ever procrastinated? If you say "No", you are totally a liar! But most important, do you know what procrastination is? This is a (un)aware process of postponing somethi...
Introduction I have been using VScode for a while now, and I can say that it is my favorite IDE so far! In this post, I will show you my top 10 VSCode shortcuts, which could help you be more productiv...
Introduction While I'm still a sublime fan for quite some time, I've been mainly using VS Code. For anyone who is just getting started with Laravel, I would recommend going through this Laravel basics...
Introduction It is no secret that it is about constancy and devotion! Find your niche and don't stop DEVeloping yourself! If you would like to continue growing as a developer, here are some tips for b...
Introduction If you are not sure what a slug exactly is, you should go through this post here first: https://devdojo.com/devdojo/what-is-a-slug There are many reasons why you would want to have a nice...
Introduction RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a feed that returns information in XML format. Having an RSS feed would allow your users to track the latest posts on your website easily....
Introduction Laravel Zero is an open-source PHP framework that can be used for creating console applications. Laravel Zero is not an official Laravel package but was created by Nuno Maduro, who is als...
Introduction Laravel Livewire was created by Caleb Porzio that allows you to add reactivity to your Laravel applications. If you are not familiar with Laravel Livewire, I would recommend reading this ...
Introduction In order to optimize your website load time, you should not load too many resources on one page as it could result in longer page load times. That is why it is good to use pagination to l...
Introduction The GitHub CLI or gh is basically GitHub on command-line. You can interact with your GitHub account directly through your command line and manage things like pull requests, issues, and ot...
Introduction The Blade UI Kit is a collection of components that you could use in your Laravel Blade. The package was created by Dries Vints who is also a developer at Laravel. If you are not familiar...
Introduction Using PHP OPcache is a great way to improve your overall performance. OPcache stores pre-compiled script bytecode in memory, which eliminates the need for PHP to load and parse scripts on...
Introduction Laravel 8 was released on September 8th along with Laravel Jetstream. Laravel Jetstream is a new application scaffolding for Laravel. Laravel Jetstream replaces the legacy Laravel authent...
Introduction As of writing this post, Laravel 8 is still not officially out, but it was just announced at Laracon Online. Here is a list with some of the new excellent features that you will get with ...
Introduction There is a huge number of useful apps you can download. They could make your day more organized, better planed, less stressful. Besides, they would save you time. Here are my TOP 5 appli...
Introduction The Laravel community has been growing exponentially, and there are a lot of fantastic packages out there. I recently came across a Laravel package that provides an artisan command to che...
Introduction If you are using git along with Github, Gitlab for example, you need to make sure that you do not include any sensitive information to your repositories like passwords or secrets. To do t...
Introduction Have you ever had that kind of a day in which you have no desire for doing anything productive even though you have a lot of work and various tasks for the day but the only thing you do i...
Introduction No matter if you are a DevOps/SysOps engineer, developer, or just a Linux enthusiast, you can use Bash scripts to combine different Linux commands and automate boring and repetitive daily...
Introduction There could be various reasons why you would need a free domain for your project. For example, having multiple side projects could be quite costly in case that your projects are not gener...
Introduction Many people have been working from home for the last few months. The world lockdown had inflicted different changes in the daily life of everyone. In order to work effectively, you will n...
Introduction Laravel is an amazing PHP framework that makes working with PHP great. As of the time of writing this tutorial, Laravel has more than 105 million installs according to Packagis, so as you...
Introduction If you have ever done any coding you are most likely well familiar with the foreach loops. Without any doubt, a foreach loop is one of the best ways to iterate over the elements of the co...
Introduction There are many ways of adding search functionality to your Laravel website. For example, you could use Laravel Scout which is an official Laravel package, you can take a look at this tuto...
Introduction In some cases when a particular table grows too much it might slow down your Laravel website. You might want to clear old records or archive them to another table so that you could keep y...
Introduction There are many different ways to limit the length of a string. For example, you could use CSS, JavaScript, or do it through PHP. Laravel also provides a nice helper to make this easy! We...
Introduction The rsync command is probably one of the most used commands out there. It is used to securely copy files from one server to another over SSH. Compared to the scp command, which does a sim...
Introduction Markdown was created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz who contributed on the syntax. Nowadays Markdown is everywhere, from readme files and writing messages in online discussion forums. I'...
Introduction More often than not you would need to perform some maintenance for your Laravel website. Luckily Laravel makes it super easy to put your application in maintenance mode! In this tutorial,...
Introduction In Linux and other Unix systems, a pipe is a way of redirecting the output of one command or a process to another. This is also known as an unnamed pipe. For example, you could combine th...
Introduction Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. If you are new to Docker I would recommend going through this Introduction to Docker tutorial! In this tutor...
Introduction Laravel is an open-source PHP framework. It was created by Taylor Otwell and it is based on Symfony. As of Laravel 6.x, it now follows Semantic Versioning, which essentially means that th...
Introduction Using a long and secure MySQL password is necessary, however having to type that long password every time you run mysql -u root -p could be a bit frustrating especially if you want to run...
Introduction Exim is one of the most popular message transfer agent (MTA). It is widely used on different systems and is the goto message transfer agent for most cPanel servers. Exim was developed at ...
Introduction Bash scripting lets you automate a lot of your tasks on Linux and UNIX systems. Bash combines the power of the Linux commands and tools with a powerful and robust scripting language. Bash...
Introduction I host all of my websites on DigitalOcean Droplets and I also use Cloudflare as my CDN provider. One of the benefits of using Cloudflare is that it reduces the overall traffic to your use...
Introduction As a developer or system administrator, you might have to spend a lot of time in your terminal. I always try to look for ways to optimize any repetitive tasks. One way to do that is to ei...
Introduction Quizzes are a great way to test your knowledge on a specific topic. So I decided to create a tool called the Quiz API! Quiz API is a simple HTTP REST API for technical quizzes including ...
IntroductionOne of the first things that I would usually do in case I notice a high CPU usage on some of my Linux servers would be to check the process list with either top or htop and in case that I ...
IntroductionThe SSL Checker tool allows you to quickly diagnose problems with your SSL certificate installation and also gives you some useful information like when your SSL certificate woul...
IntroductionThe jq command-line tool is is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. It is great for parsing JSON output in BASH.One of the great things about jq is that it is writt...
IntroductionDocker is the de facto standard to build and share containerized apps - from desktop to the cloud. You can basically run Docker virtually anywhere from your DigitalOcean Droplet or your La...
IntroductionThere are many ways and tools on how to export or backup your MySQL databases. In my opinion, mysqldump is a great tool to accomplish this task.The mysqldump tool can be used to dump ...
Last year Tylor Otwell, the creator of the Laravel PHP framework, made an announcement about the new deployment platform named Laravel Vapor. It was a huge game-changer for the whole PH...
IntroductionRecently I had to setup a Docker Web Interface for one of my Docker hosts so that it could be easier for the rest of my team to check the status of our Docker Containers, restart them in c...
In this tutorial I'll show you how you could horizontally scale up your Laravel application by adding multiple database instances.In case you are not familiar with the term 'horizontal scaling', it si...
Bash is a Unix shell, which is a command line interface (CLI) for interacting with an operating system. Any command that you can run from the command line can be used in a bash script. Scripts are use...
NOIA is a great project that I've been following up on for the past one year. NOIA is the future of internet.NOIA Network utilizes Segment Routing, IPv6 and Distributed Ledger technologies to cre...
This is an easy step by step guide on how to add a contact from to your Voyager application.PrerequisitesBefore you begin you need to make sure that you have Laravel and Voyager up and running and tha...
HAProxy is great solution for load balancing as it does not require lots of resources, it is scalable, easy to setup and fairly simple to manage. In this guide I'll show you how to install and configu...
This is a step by step guide on how to create a new droplet via your Digital Ocean control panel, manually install and configure your LAMP stack, deploy Laravel and then install Voyager.We will go tho...