What it takes to be a Platform Engineer in 2020
Platform Engineering is something that grew out of a mix of what software developers and sysadmins had been doing for years.
The only real difference …
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In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
Introduction to PIP – Python Package Manager
Python comes with a fully equipped package manager called PIP – which stands for the Python Package Manager.
PIP gives your python applications access …
Read Article →How to build a website quickly using PHP
PHP is a powerful scripting language created for the web.
It has come a long way since it’s initial inception in 1994.
It was originally created to …
Read Article →How to replace all occurrences of a string in Javascript
I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that in Javascript, there are really only two ways to do a proper search and replace.
Firstly, we need …
Read Article →How to exit Vim
If only I had a dollar for every time I saw someone sitting at their computer, trying for the life of them to exit vim
Read Article →To save and exit; press …
How to Setup and Use the Python Virtual Environment
Python is a fantastic language that continues to help so many businesses and individuals. It offers readable syntax to get started, yet extensive …
Read Article →Introducing the Hetzner Cloud
I could honestly not tell you how many hosting providers I’ve tried over the past 15 years. Probably more than 30, 40… Easily!
Today I would …
Read Article →Multiprocessing in Python3
import multiprocessing
def runner(k):
print(k)
processes = []
for i in range(10):
p = multiprocessing.Process(target=runner, args=(i,)) …How to Install MongoDB on Mac
You can use Homebrew to install MongoDB on a Mac.
For ages you were able to simply do:
brew install mongodb, but more recently, that has stopped …
The Best Note Taking Apps
We’re all using a Note Taking App these days, they’re incredibly useful and come jam packed with loads of features. But which ones shine …
Read Article →How to Delete large amount of files in directory
So you have clearly got a very large amount of files!
If you issue the conventional rm -rf * within the directory, you will get an error -bash: …
How to Merge multiple files, removing duplicate values
If you have multiple files and you want to remove duplicate values from, while creating a single file.
File1 (one.txt):
123
123
234
345
File2 …
Read Article →Unable to delete an AWS Internet Gateway
So you need to delete an AWS Internet Gateway, sounds good.
You navigate to the VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) dashboard and go to Internet Gateways. …
Read Article →How Distributed Applications Work
Distributed Applications come in a wide range of sizes, usages and resource availabilities.
What is a Distributed Application?
A perfect example of a …
Read Article →Why Artificial Intelligence (AI) won’t necessarily take your job
Artificial Intelligence, or simply AI these days, is when computers are able to perform tasks that humans would otherwise do.
While this is incredibly …
Read Article →The difference between ‘git fetch’ and ‘git pull’
Git Pull vs Fetch
Many of us take a look at git fetch and git pull and believe them to do the exact same thing! This is just not true.
So what exactly …
Read Article →7 Ways to Make Money Online from Home
1. Create a website / blog
There are numerous ways to make money when you create a website or blog. It’s really cheap and easy to do these days …
Read Article →Investigation of insider attacks with computer forensics
Cyber-attacks do not always originate from outside of the target organisation. Veritably around twenty-five percent of all data breaches occur from …
Read Article →Squid Proxy behind a Load Balancer on AWS
Squid is a proxy software that allows a computer without internet access to proxy through another computer that does have internet access.
Squid is …
Read Article →How to install a Ruby Gem without Root on a Mac
Gems are little packaged Ruby applications that allow you to extend the ecosystem and reuse countless online sources.
If you don’t have Root on …
Read Article →The dark truth behind Advertising on the internet
The story
Steve has a website which sells carpets in London.
Steve’s carpet business has been doing really well and Peter has recently noticed …
Read Article →International hosting governments and forensic email cases
Cyber forensics is hard, but it is even harder when servers are hosted in different geographical locations and an investigation needs all localities …
Read Article →When to give up on your startup/product
One of the hardest things you can do after trying to get a startup or product off the ground is to simply give up and call it a day.
After all, …
Read Article →Just SSH to my Jump Box!
I am a professional software engineer and do an absolute ton of devops work as well.
I’ve actually never been hired into devops roles as I …
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