Aug 01, 2017 from shankhs How to assess your level of preparation for the tech interviews PREPARATION. PREPARATION. PREPARATION. Preparation is the key to be successful in any interview and land that job or internship that you always wanted. When you decide you need a job, the first thi...
May 28, 2017 from shankhs Hello world! This is my blog where I will document recent interview questions, tips and tricks. Also my plan is to post some how-tos if I get sometime. See you at the next post!
Mar 31, 2017 from Randall Degges Too Busy For the last handful of years I’ve been too busy to do a lot of things. Too busy to launch new products on my free time, too busy to go on trips for fun, and too busy to spend time with family and ...
Mar 31, 2017 from Randall Degges Too Busy For the last handful of years I’ve been too busy to do a lot of things. Too busy to launch new products on my free time, too busy to go on trips for fun, and too busy to spend time with family and ...
Jul 14, 2016 from Randall Degges I Don't Give a Shit About Licensing Every now and then I’m reminded of just how much I hate software licensing. Instead of doing what I normally do and silently complaining to myself, I figured I’d mix things up a bit and write a goo...
Jul 14, 2016 from Randall Degges I Don't Give a Shit About Licensing Every now and then I’m reminded of just how much I hate software licensing. Instead of doing what I normally do and silently complaining to myself, I figured I’d mix things up a bit and write a goo...
Feb 04, 2016 from [tekovic.com~]# Dynamic HAProxy backends HAProxy is one of very few pieces of software that are truly a joy to use. It’s written in C, it’s reliable, fast, secure and versatile. I’ve been using it for a number of years now for all kinds o...
Dec 29, 2015 from Randall Degges Obsessing Over Availability is Dumb Over the past handful of years, as I’ve been building and working on several very large and very public API services, I’ve noticed that almost everyone I speak with is a zealot for availability. Th...
Dec 29, 2015 from Randall Degges Obsessing Over Availability is Dumb Over the past handful of years, as I’ve been building and working on several very large and very public API services, I’ve noticed that almost everyone I speak with is a zealot for availability. Th...
Dec 18, 2015 from Randall Degges Two Years of Evangelism In a couple short months, I’ll have been at Stormpath for two full years. It’s pretty insane how fast the time has flown by. It seems like only yesterday I was writing about my decision to move to ...
Dec 18, 2015 from Randall Degges Two Years of Evangelism In a couple short months, I’ll have been at Stormpath for two full years. It’s pretty insane how fast the time has flown by. It seems like only yesterday I was writing about my decision to move to ...
Sep 01, 2015 from [tekovic.com~]# Rebuilding software RAID without mdadm.conf Rebuilding software RAID array is very easy when you have your mdadm.conf file at hand, but when you find yourself in a situation without backup of that little config file, e.g. after reinstalling ...
Jan 19, 2014 from Stranger Than Usual Kochprojekt Woche 3: Fenchel mit Käse überbacken Diese Woche habe ich mangels Fleisch für Rouladen überbackenen Fenchel gemacht.
Oct 03, 2013 from [tekovic.com~]# How to remove VirtFS like a boss Recently I was unfortunate to witness huge filesystem loop on a cPanel server that was caused by combination of VirtFS and Idera’s Server Backup software (previously known as R1soft CDP backup). To...
Jan 19, 2013 from [tekovic.com~]# Fixing timeout between Nginx and PHP-FPM In case you’ve set up Nginx as reverse proxy for PHP-FPM and you have very slow or complex PHP script that executes for quite some time, you’ve probably seen an 504 gateway time-out error. This is ...
Oct 15, 2012 from [tekovic.com~]# Exim ACL for blocking certain senders If you’re in a need for fast and simple solution to block certain senders directly on Exim mail server, you’re in luck. Couple of weeks back I needed to blacklist a spammer on a relay mail server, ...
Sep 12, 2012 from [tekovic.com~]# AWStats - poor man’s download counter A few days ago I was asked to configure AWStats to count downloads of .exe files on an website. I know that it’s blindingly obvious that AWStats isn’t the right tool for this job, but sometimes you...
Jul 20, 2012 from [tekovic.com~]# Change passwords for multiple cPanel accounts (bulk password reset) The other day I needed to change passwords for multiple cPanel accounts. Since there was a lot accounts in question, changing passwords manually was out of the question. Changing passwords from she...
Mar 17, 2012 from [tekovic.com~]# Adding custom modules to Nginx RPM If you’ve installed Nginx from source, adding custom modules is easy. You simply recompile Nginx and include the module you want. But what if you’ve installed Nginx from RPM? How do you install cus...
Mar 11, 2012 from [tekovic.com~]# Nginx maintenance page with 503 HTTP status code The other day I had to do some maintenance on a server with Nginx configured as a reverse proxy for Apache. The configuration was very simple - Nginx was in front of Apache and it served static con...