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As you start scaling an application out horizontally (adding more servers/instances), you may run into a problem that requires distributed locking. That's a fancy term, but the concept is simple. Sometimes you have to be sure that when a block …

I’ve been working quite a bit lately on streamlining Lincoln Loop’s standard deployment systems. One thorn we’ve always had is how to handle application configuration. In the past, we would have our configuration management system write the configuration out to …

Virtualization technologies have been around for a while in various forms and over the last several years the container style of virtualization has become popular as a complement (or replacement) to VMs (Virtual Machines / hypervisors). The first half of …

Nowadays, it's common to deploy multiple application servers, but it poses a very common problem; How are these application servers going to share the media files contributed by the users? Cloud providers like Google, Rackspace or Amazon Web Services solve …

This post could have been titled, "How We Use OpenPGP to Protect Our Secrets." All the use cases illustrated below use a tool called GnuPG to take care of the crypto details for us. GnuPG is a complete and free …

The most famous quote to characterize python speed is: It is fast enough I have used this quote many times, and I still believe that it applies to most circumstances if you throw enough hardware at the problem. Despite Python …

Building a cluster in the cloud is becoming a mundane step that you have to do several times during the life cycle of a project. There are multiple driving forces behind this fact: Initial set up Redundancy Setting up an …

Let's Encrypt is a new certificate authority. It is a huge improvement over the manual complex process of acquiring and deploying an HTTPS server. The process is now: Free Automatic (no more login to sites, filling forms, concatenating certificates) This …

Element queries provide styling opportunities specific to an element's dimensions. You could consider them the holy grail of responsive web design, allowing authors to determine an element's look and feel regardless on where it's placed. If given ample space you …

With the version 1.0 release of react-router, the named Route feature was dropped. In earlier versions, you were able to define each Route with a name parameter: <Route path="/account/billing" name="account-billing" /> and link to the RouteHandler via: <Link to="account-billing">Billing</Link> This …