Stop installing Postgres on your laptop : use Docker instead

Anthony Dahanne January 17th, 2016

Tired of managing a full-blown DB server on your development machine ? Let’s give Docker a try! Getting started with Docker First, if your development machine is not running Linux (ie if you’re running windows or mac os x), it’s easier to use boot2docker to get started, since it will take care of installing: VirtualBox (if you already have it ...

Sticky Session Load Balancer with Nginx

Arpit Aggarwal January 17th, 2016

Load balancer distributes incoming requests across multiple computing application servers. It aims to optimize resource use, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload of any single resource. Nginx supports below load balancing mechanisms: Round-Robin — Requests to the application servers are distributed in a round-robin fashion. Least-Connected — Next request is assigned to the server with the least number of ...

Linux chown Example

Mohanraj Gurubatham January 17th, 2016

1. Introduction In this example, we feature a comprehensive Linux chown Example. We will see how to use the Unix-like system command chown The chown command changes the owner and owning group of files. 1.1 Linux Machine If you are on Windows OS, before we get into the details of this command, I would suggest you to have a Linux machine ...