How to serve a hundred million users without going nuts? What technologies to use? In what language, after all, to write the authorization for your future high load to make sure that everything is "like for the…
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Using synctool for server configuration management
The problem of managing a large number of systems is not new, but it has become particularly acute following the spread of clusters and cloud services. A variety of tools has been designed in order to solve…
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Review of ROSA Fresh Desktop 4
The idea of NSP (National Software Platform) is debated on the government level in Russia. Among other things, such NNP would include ROSA Linux distribution, formerly known as Mandriva. Recently, a new version was released for one…
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Usage of Amazon Auto Scaling to reduce costs of the…
It often happens that the costs of the project's hosting service are higher than its other living expenses. It specifically refers to those projects using Amazon AWS extensively. But far from everyone knows that Amazon delivers various…
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High Load Theory
In the past couple of years, the term "high load" has become very popular in the "big IT". The high loads are used to scare people during interviews and for all sorts of comparisons at various specialized…
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Getting acquainted with Liferay
Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) have gradually been transformed from fashion to an irreplaceable business tool providing employees with a single point of access to data, tools for management of business processes and information exchange facilities. The Liferay…
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Making UNIX daemon from Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat is a server of web applications primarily used in commercial environment not only as an application platform, but also as a component of large projects related with providing of a web-interface. In corporate sector, security…
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A saga about a packer which can prepare similar OS…
Since the beginning of dynamic Web development, а synchronization problem has emerged concerning a set of software programs, its versions and configurations in production and development environments. The developer of Vagrant has invented a new tool which…
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Review of OpenLMI administration tools
Linux supports a highly versatile set of administration tools. On the one hand, it is good — users have options. But, on the other hand, this very variety is not quite suitable for a corporate sector, as…
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Why do we need ARM on servers?
A small optimized kit of ARM chip commands is perfect for mobile devices. Thanks to lower power consumption, it is very popular today for being used in smartphones and tablets. However, recently there has been a lot…
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Getting started with Foreman
Manual maintenance of a modern network consisting of multiple systems is very difficult and costly. It requires the tools that provide full life cycle management, including OS deployment, further configuration and change audit. Foreman is the very…
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