Finagle Under the Hood
Explore Finagle's internals, including connection pooling, load balancing, and circuit breaking. Learn how servers and clients function in this extensible RPC system for JVM, used at Twitter.
A Beginner's Guide to Becoming a Performance Tuner
Discover common SQL Server performance killers and learn essential tuning techniques for both DBAs and developers. Gain practical insights through demos on server configuration, T-SQL parallelism, and TempDB optimization.
The BEAST Wins Again - Why TLS Keeps Failing to Protect HTTP
Explores three new attacks against TLS on the web, revealing vulnerabilities in cryptographic protocols, implementation issues, and HTTPS deployment. Discusses attacker capabilities and mitigation strategies.
Making an Internal Let's Encrypt Relay Server
Learn to create an internal Let's Encrypt relay server for secure certificate management, exploring advantages, requirements, and implementation steps.
The Optimization of a Boost.Asio-Based Networking Server
Optimize Boost.Asio-based networking servers through advanced techniques, models, and architectures. Explore synchronous I/O, KRU, ACO buffer, and more for improved performance.
The Sorry State of SSL
Comprehensive overview of SSL/TLS security, covering protocols, encryption, common pitfalls, and best practices for developers and users to ensure data protection in web applications.
Packaging and Testing with Devpi and Tox
Efficient Python project management: Learn to organize packaging and testing using devpi-server and tox. Explore workflows for open-source and in-house development, including inheritance, security, and automation.
Query Performance Tuning in SQL Server 2014
Comprehensive guide to SQL Server query optimization, covering database design, server configuration, and T-SQL coding techniques for improved performance.
A Beginner's Guide to Becoming a Performance Tuner
Discover hidden performance killers in SQL Server through worst practices. Learn server configuration, T-SQL parallelism, and TempDB issues to jumpstart your journey as a performance tuner.
Practical Guidance to Make Your Tier-1 SQL Server Roar
Optimize high-performance tier-1 SQL Server systems with expert guidance on configuration, tuning, and maintenance for modern hardware, covering platform, server, and infrastructure considerations.
Linux Security - Securing Apache2
Comprehensive guide on securing Apache2 web server on Linux systems, covering setup, configuration, and auditing best practices for enhanced server protection.
RADIUS WiFi Authentication for Enterprise Networks - Lesson 13
Set up a RADIUS server for secure WiFi authentication using WPA-Enterprise, enhancing network security and user management capabilities.
The Perfect Configuration - Optimizing Server Components for Maximum Datacenter Performance
Discover how optimal datacenter performance relies on balanced component configuration rather than processor speed alone, exploring key principles for achieving maximum server efficiency.
HashiCorp Vault Deployment, HTTP API, and UI - Part 8
Deploy and manage HashiCorp Vault in production, including configuration, server setup, UI access, and HTTP API usage. Learn about seal/unseal tokens and storage backends.
NGINX Tutorial - What is NGINX and Its Common Use Cases
Comprehensive overview of Nginx: its uses as web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer, configuration basics, and comparison with Apache. Explores Nginx's role in Kubernetes.
How to Use a Virtual Private Cloud for Securing Cloud Environments
Learn to secure cloud environments using Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Practical demo on setting up Linodes with a shared VPC, running a Node application and database, showcasing VPC implementation benefits.
How to Add Rate Limiting in Nginx
Implement Nginx rate limiting to manage server traffic, prevent DDoS attacks, and maintain stability by controlling requests from individual IP addresses using built-in directives.
How to Deploy Node.js API with Nginx on VPS
Step-by-step guide to deploy Node.js API with Nginx on VPS, covering server setup, app configuration, PM2 usage, and Nginx reverse proxy setup for efficient and secure traffic management.
Ollama on Linux - Installing and Running LLMs on Your Server
Step-by-step guide to installing and running Ollama on Linux servers, enabling easy deployment of large language models like Llama2 for remote access and use.
Deploying Spring Boot Microservices on Azure
Learn to deploy Spring Boot microservices on Azure, covering configuration, staging, testing, and troubleshooting for efficient cloud-based application development.
Performance Audits - The Top 8 Problems We Find and How to Fix Them
Discover the 8 most common performance issues in web development and learn effective strategies to resolve them for optimal site speed and user experience.