Over the past few years the usage of NOSQL databases has grown quite a bit. Part of this popularity is due to the scalability and performance seen with NOSQL solutions, one of those highly performant databases is Redis. Redis is an highly popular open source in memory key – value data store that is currently in Full Article…
Before the advent of a distributed domain name system; networked computers used local files to map hostnames to IP addresses. On Unix systems this file was named /etc/hosts or “the hosts file”. In those days, networks were small and managing a file with a handful of hosts was easy. However as the networks grew so Full Article…
One of the things that excited me while learning Unix/Linux was how quickly one can perform tasks via the command line. Bash is a fully functional scripting language that incorporates Variables, Loops and If/Then statements; the bash shell allows a user to use these functions while performing adhoc tasks via the command line. This is also Full Article…
Recently while I was scouring through a spreadsheet of “unallocated” IP addresses, I thought to myself. There has to be a better way to manage an inventory of IP addresses, and while I’m at it maybe even provide a list of provisioned servers. After some googling I found myself on RackTables.org the home of an Full Article…
In a previous article I covered a little bit about Symlinks and Hardlinks but I never really explained what they are or how to create them. Today I am going to cover how to create both Symlinks and Hardlinks and what the difference is between the two. What are Symlinks and Hardlinks Hard Links In Full Article…