Server Optimization

How To Add the gzip Module to Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add the gzip Module to Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

How fast a website will load depends on the size of all of the files that have to be downloaded by the browser. Reducing the size of files to be transmitted can make the website not only load faster, but also cheaper to those who have to pay for their bandwidth usage. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to configure Nginx installed on your Ubuntu 16.04 server to utilize `gzip` compression to reduce the size of content sent to website visitors.

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How To Implement Distributed Tracing with Jaeger on Kubernetes — step-by-step Kubernetes tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Implement Distributed Tracing with Jaeger on Kubernetes

In this tutorial, we will deploy a very small distributed application to a Kubernetes cluster and simulate a performance lag using a sleep function in our code. To find the root cause of this issue and to trace each event, we will use Jaeger. With distributed tracing enabled, we’ll see how easy it is to observe the behavior of Services and pinpoint issues.

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Установка Jenkins в Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Установка Jenkins в Ubuntu 20.04

При наличии повторяющихся технических задач подобрать действительно работающее решение автоматизации не так просто. Сервер автоматизации Jenkins с открытым исходным кодом позволяет эффективно управлять разнообразными задачами от сборки до развертывания…

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Recommended Steps for New FreeBSD 10.1 Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Recommended Steps for New FreeBSD 10.1 Servers

When setting up a new FreeBSD server, there are a number of optional steps you can take to get your server into a more production-friendly state. In this guide, we will go over some of the most common examples. We will cover how to create a firewall that denies most traffic, ensure that your server’s time zone accurately reflects its location, and set up NTP polling to keep the server’s time accurate. Finally, we will demonstrate how to add some extra swap space to your server.

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5 Configuraciones Comunes para tus Aplicaciones Web — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

5 Configuraciones Comunes para tus Aplicaciones Web

Cuando decidimos que arquitectura de servidor utilizar para nuestro enterno, hay muchos factores a considerar, como el rendimiento, escalabilidad, disponibilidad, costo y facilidad de administración. Aquí hay una lista de las configuraciones comunes de servidor, con una corta descripción en cada una, incluyendo pros y contras.

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How To Scale Django: Finding the Bottleneck — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Scale Django: Finding the Bottleneck

Once an app has been deployed and more and more people begin using it, it won’t be long before you begin to notice it slowing down. This is a common problem, and in this tutorial we will go over some tools that work with Django which can help to alleviate this issue.

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