Servers and Scaling

Want the power of Periscope or Tableau, without the big monthly bill? Setup Metabase to run locally on your CentOS server.

Mount a directory to be shared between multiple servers using Network File System (NFS).

Configuring your Lambda function for use with an Alexa skill.

A step by step guide (with example files) to open a port using IPtables, to allow restricted inbound traffic to a server.

Guide to automating server deployments with Ansible playbooks, with example files.

Centralize your logging by using Filebeat to send log files to Logstash.

A small Python script to take action whenever a new file is uploaded to a directory or its contents change.

Review of 3 common Python-based data pipeline / workflow frameworks from AirBnb, Pinterest, and Spotify.

A simple Bash script to check multiple server instances are responding, and rows are being added to a MySQL database.

Installation steps to start serving any PHP application (eg Wordpress) using FPM on CentOS, together with a sample Nginx config file.

Screen is one of my favourite utilities when managing servers - it allows you to use multiple shell windows from a single SSH session and to keep these active even after logging out. It is super useful for monitoring long-running processes.