- Tools to manage popular database systems - There are several tools available for interacting with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). These tools can help you manage, query, and analyze data stored in your databases. Here's a list of some popular tools for different RDBMS: MySQL:MySQL Workbench: An official, integrated environment for MySQL database design, administration, development, and… …
- Roadmap to be an expert in SQL - Learning SQL is important for several reasons, particularly for professionals working with data or in the technology industry. Here are some key reasons why learning SQL is beneficial: Data-driven decision-making: Organizations across various industries rely heavily on data to make informed decisions. SQL is the standard language for managing and… …
- What are basic things in SQL, that you should know? - SQL (Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used for managing relational databases and performing various operations on the data stored in them. Here are some basic concepts and operations that you should know when getting started with SQL: SQL Syntax and Keywords: SQL has a specific syntax and a… …
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- 7 Laravel Features to Enhance the Security of Your Application - In the world of web development, ensuring the security of your application is a top priority. Laravel, a popular PHP framework, comes with a range of built-in features that can help you enhance the security of your applications. In this article, we'll discuss seven powerful Laravel features that you can… …
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- Book Review : Socket.IO Cookbook (Tyson Cadenhead) by Zareef Ahmed - Review of Socket.IO Cookbook by Zareef Ahmed. …
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- Book Review : Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins By Zareef Ahmed - Book Review by Zareef Ahmed for the book Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins. …
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- AWS : How to connect to Windows Instance by Zareef Ahmed - In this short video, I have created and connected to a windows instance at Amazon Web Service (AWS) …
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- What is the use of dynamic inventory in Ansible? - Here we are discussing the use case of dynamic inventory in Ansible. …
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- Book Review : Clean Code (Robert C. Martin) by Zareef Ahmed - Book Review by Zareef Ahmed of Book Clean Code (Robert C. Martin) …
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- Book Review : Mastering Ansible (Jesse Keating) by Zareef Ahmed - Book Review : Mastering Ansible (Jesse Keating) by Zareef Ahmed. …
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- 7 things every web developer should know about Linux Administration By Zareef Ahmed - 7 things every web developer should know about Linux Administration By Zareef Ahmed Web programming is not only about how you develop your applications, ... …
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- How to be a good wordpress programmer? | Zareef Ahmed - How to be good wordpress programmer by Zareef Ahmed In this video, I am enlisting things which you should know if you want to be a good wordpress ... …
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- Things you should know about file upload handling in PHP | Zareef Ahmed - In this video, Zareef Ahmed is talking about File upload handing in PHP, He is covering topics which you should know about in file uploads. This is based on an ... …
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- 7 Things you need to know to implement better DevOps | Zareef Ahmed - In this video, I am talking about seven things which you need to know to implement a better devops culture in your company. It is based on the article I wrote on ... …
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- Github : How to do forking from a repository? | Zareef Ahmed - In this short video, I am going to show you, how you can create a fork from a github respository Zareef Ahmed (https://www.zareef.com) …
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- Git : How to use git to create a local backup restoration plan? - In this video, I am going to show you about the git feature using which you can use it as backup restoration plan. …
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- Vagrant : How to create a VM with custom public network IP address using Virtualbox? | Zareef Ahmed - In this video, I am going to show, how you can create a VM using vagrant with custom public ip address. We are using Virtualbox as our provider. …
- Day 2 : RDS Service by Amazon Web Service (AWS) - In this second video, we are talking about RDS. This is live recording of session. …
- Day 3 : Walk-through of EC2 on AWS - In this session, I have done a walk-through of EC2. …
- Google Cloud Load balancer & Autoscaling in ACTION!! (Udemy link below with discount code!) - https://www.udemy.com/google-cloud-for-techs/?couponCode=LEARNGOOGLE Happy cloud computing! …
- Google BigQuery introduction by Jordan Tigani - BigQuery engineer Jordan Tigani gives a detailed introduction to Google BigQuery. Music recommendation demo from Alexandre Passant: http://apassant.net/2014/07/11/music-recommendations-300m-data-points-sql/ Recorded on March 11th, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. …
- Google Cloud Endpoints: serving your API to the world (Google Cloud Next ’17) - Learn about Google Cloud Endpoints and how it can make your application available to anyone in the world, all while keeping your servers protected, your data secure, and your clients happy. Missed the conference? Watch all the talks here: https://goo.gl/c1Vs3h Watch more talks about Connected Business Platform here: https://goo.gl/CtHNJm …
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- Migrating Apps to Cloud: Systematic or Random (Cloud Next ’18) - The cloud has emerged as the next platform for innovation and speed, given the advances in cloud technology and maturity of cloud offerings in the marketplace. The successful examples and stories of organizations taking their workloads to the cloud has resulted in many organizations adopting a me-too approach. However, in… …
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- DDoS Defense and Application Protection with Cloud Armor, GCP Security, and ML (Cloud Next ’18) - Your Internet-facing services are exposed to a variety of threats from volumetric and protocol DDoS to sophisticated application attacks. In this session, you'll learn how to customize defense for your Google Cloud services based on your unique requirements. Dive deep into DDoS defense with Google's edge infrastructure, Cloud Load Balancing,… …
- A Year in GCP Networking (Cloud Next ’18) - In this session, we will talk about the valuable advancements that have been made in GCP Networking over the last year. We will introduce you to the GCP Network team and will tell you about what you can do to extract the most value from your GCP Deployment. Event schedule… …
- Visualization with GPUs on Google Compute Engine (Cloud Next ’18) - GPUs on Google Compute Engine allow you to run remote workstations on demand. With NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, you can spin up a workstation in any region you need with the same pricing model as GCE and the latest generation of GPUs. Event schedule → http://g.co/next18 Watch more Infrastructure & Operations… …
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- Best Practices for Storage Classes, Reliability, Performance and Scalability (Cloud Next ’18) - So you have data and you serve applications, systems or people who access it. Depending on what kind of data you have and what kind of workload you're supporting, the storage you choose is important. IO107 Event schedule → http://g.co/next18 Watch more Infrastructure & Operations sessions here → http://bit.ly/2uEykpQ Next… …
- Managing Costs in GCP: How to Structure Your Resources (Cloud Next ’18) - How much do all of my frontend servers cost? How many resources are used in my staging environment? How do I understand and optimize my spending across departments? GCP tools such as organizations, folders, projects, and labels help you create logical groupings of resources that support your management and cost… …
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- The Power of Process & Partnership: Leverage Tools to Increase Efficiency (Cloud Next ’18) - This session will focus on foundational approaches for successful Google Cloud migration, emphasizing two key components that have broader applications. First, understanding the five Ws (who, what, where, when, and why) through a logical lens by leveraging decision matrices, which are used by Etsy to make key determinations around which… …
- Hybrid Lift-and-Shift/Optimize Real World Stories (Cloud Next ’18) - In this panel discussion, we will discuss how several GCP customers who made the move from private to public cloud and hear lessons they learned along the way. Event schedule → http://g.co/next18 Watch more Infrastructure & Operations sessions here → http://bit.ly/2uEykpQ Next ‘18 All Sessions playlist → http://bit.ly/Allsessions Subscribe to… …
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- Get the best HPC Performance via Intel Xeon Skylake on Google Cloud (Cloud Next ’18) - HPC Cloud services built on the latest Intel architecture, Skylake Xeon processor, are now powering Google compute engine and can serve as your next-generation HPC platform. Hear how customers are starting to consider hybrid strategies to increase productivity and lower their capital expenditure and maintenance costs. Learn how to adapt… …
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- AWS Certification Exam : 9 Online Education providers which you can use - AWS certification exams are quite popular and in demand. AWS is an open cloud provider with largest market share. Certification gives you any benefits or not, is always a debatable topic. I am not going into that aspects of certifications, in my view, if you do not see any value… …
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- AWS architect : What an architect does? - An architect is a person who is responsible for how development team will come out with product. He handles how different components will talk to each other, he even decides what different components will be used to produce stable and secure product. So, architect is generally responsible for : -… …
- 9 things you need to know about Java 9 - Java 9 has been released in the market. It has lots of new improvements and additions. In this article, I am enlisting 9 things of this major release. Introduction of Jshell Now, java has joined the league of languages with a shell. Languages like python, ruby and R were having… …
- VMware on AWS : What you need to know? - In August 2017, AWS launched VMware for Amazon Cloud service after one year of work with vmware. It was announced at VMworld. It was in beta access since sometime for some selected customers. Now you can take your VMware load to AWS while still managing your inhouse cloud operations. In… …
- 10 differences between AWS and Google Cloud - (This webinar was recorded four years ago, so some of the points are outdated. I am working on the latest version of this webinar and will update the blog accordingly- Zareef Ahmed) AWS is market leader in open cloud space but other players are making inroads into its market share.… …
- 3 things you need to know about AWS Migration Hub - AWS Migration has been recently announced by AWS. This is a service which you can use to migrate your applications to AWS. This service can be used to track status of application migrations. In this article, I am compiling 3 things you should know about it. Availability This service is… …
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- How to deal with cache nightmares? - Internet is the place where data is being generated at one place (usually servers) and then being served to the client through browsers and mobile apps. Lots of machines are involved in transferring this data from origin to destination. To improve user experience and to save computing resources, developers use… …
- 7 Devops tools which you should know to create a productive devops culture - Let me state it in start without any introduction. Devops is a culture of practices. It is not a tool. In fact, it is a set of processes for which we use different type of tools, so we can create the culture we want to follow in our organisation or… …
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- Is a knowledge of Hadoop required to learn Spark? - You need to understand some basic differences between hadoop and spark. One of the major difference is file system. Hadoop has HDFS while spark does not have any native file system associated with it. So, you can run spark without hadoop in theory., but you need something to handle data.… …
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- Why do we use a token concept in PHP? - Question is not specific to PHP only, it is generic for Web development, language will not matter. PHP has session tokens through which server will identify the session id of a specific user, (this is similar to many other languages). These tokens can be sent via cookies or via embedding… …
- Devops for QA : Is programming required? - Recently I got this query -------------------------------------- I am working as a Testing team lead in manual testing so i don't have a programming knowledge. Now, I want to learn DevOps. Before join in this course i want to clarify my doubts. 1. Is it possible to learn as a manual… …
- Cloud Security : One mistake that can close down your cloud operations in few minutes - Few days back, I was in a discussion with a senior person. Our discussion was centred around cloud and security. We talked about lots of common and obvious processes and measures we can take for security of our applications on different platforms including but not limited to Amazon EC2, Azure… …
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- What is the best Linux software to monitor web traffic on router? - am assuming that you want to log and monitor the traffic which is passing through a hardware router. Your question seems incomplete to me because at router level, it is difficult to decide if data which is being transferred is for web or something else. You can treat all TCP/IP… …
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- How to handle checkout when we are selling unique products? - Checkout process for unique product has to be handled in different way than products which are available in quantities. Products with one quantity are unique product. Paintings, concert tickets, hotel rooms, flight tickets ( when you choose a specific seat) are unique products. Old household items are also unique items.… …
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- In defense of QA team: Who is responsible for errors in any software or website? - Consider this hypothetical situation. Something very precious was in a building. Building was being guarded by a guard who was responsible for the safety of precious item. A thief using his intelligence and luck to stole that precious item from building. At a later stage, thief was caught but he… …
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- Your projects are not your real baby, you may need to dispose them - “This project is my baby, I don’t want to see it perform badly, I will give everything to protect it”, Does this sentence sound familiar to you? You may have heard it from your colleague or may have said it yourself. In my view, ‘Like my baby’ is a metaphor… …
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- 2 things you should never do as a programmer - You will find lots of guides and articles on the internet about what you should do to be a good programmer. A lot has been written on what we should do to excel in any field. In my view, its not only what we do which make us good in… …
- What are some limitations of PHP? - Recently I answered a question on quora. I am reproducing it here again. In my view question is not complete and does not provide context which has to be evaluated to answer. So I am writing this answer based on two assumptions. First of all I am assuming that questioner… …
- Drupal vs Zend : which one should be used for application development? - "You have done that specific site in Zend, don't you think our application is also suitable for Zend instead of Drupal", I just got this email from a prospective client. This question has been asked to me many times. I am a big fan of Drupal as well Zend, so… …
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