Using the right tool for the right job

For many years MySQL and PostgreSQL were competing databases, which addressed slightly different audiences. Here's why you always should go for PostgreSQL!

Bash scripts are a great way to automate simple tasks in our electronic day-to-day life. Once you get used to writing them, it easily becomes a productivity increasing habit. Here's a list of my most often used bash features and constructs. Shebang and Options…

Most people who maintain web servers (or email servers, or...) have probably had to deal with SSL/TLS certificates in the past, but the process is, in my opinion, typically more complex than it should be, and not that well documented, typically forcing the…

F5 NGINX provides a suite of products that together form the core of what organizations need to create apps and APIs with performance, reliability, security, and scale.

Vagrant 2.0 is available immediately from the Vagrant website. You can find the full list of changes in recent Vagrant releases in the Changelog.

The following interview is part of a series, called Open Source Leaders, where we profile project leaders in the open source IT community, to learn more about how they developed their software as well as the challenges and benefits that come with running…

The myth of the lone open source developer is real, but successful open source projects depend on corporate involvement, a new study finds.

As of September 2017, every Certificate Authority is obligated to check the CAA DNS records for a domain it is about to issue a certificate to. This gives more control to the domain owner and can limit which Certificate Authorities are allowed to issue certificates.…

The rise of the two metrics that matter for host security: reverse uptime and golden image freshness.

Storage products in peril, too, but Big Red declines to comment

As the 4.13 release has now happened, the merge window for
the 4.14 kernel release is now open. I mentioned
this many weeks ago, but as the word …

I recently attended Serverless Day at the AWS Loft in downtown San Francisco. During the workshop section we built a serverless web…

Google's Search Console team recently sent out an email to site owners with a warning that Google Chrome will take steps starting this October to identify and

Linux has several utilities for splitting up files. So why would you want to split your files? One use case is to split a large file into smaller sizes so that it fits on smaller media, like USB sticks. This is also a good trick to transfer files via USB…