Category Archives: Code

Web server performance analysis : 2012

By Rob Terhaar | Published: June 14, 2012
The famous Apache web server has recently received a negative reputation for being hard to configure, slow, and unable to handle “web-scale” traffic. Many people are moving their web traffic to newer web servers such as node.js and Nginx, but don’t really understand the benefits of these servers as compared to Apache. The performance benefits [...]
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Guide to using Virtualenv and Python

By Rob Terhaar | Published: April 12, 2012
There are a few different methods for managing your Python development projects. Virtualenv tends to be at the core of these management systems. When I first got started with Python, my really smart Python friends said “Use Virtualenv!!” And honestly, I didn’t really listen to my smart Python friends at first. I didn’t listen to [...]
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Using Puppet instead of Bash

By Rob Terhaar | Published: January 29, 2011
If you’ve done any amount of heavy UNIX systems administration work, you’ve undoubtedly written several big ugly Bash scripts. #!/bin/bash for i in `more standard_package_list.txt ` do apt-get install $i done This simple code example will read a txt file with a list of required packages, and then install all packages. So how can Puppet [...]
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