Don’t name your input elements ‘action’ or ‘submit’

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[PowerDNS] Backends in detail: PipeBackend

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This document is about PowerDNS 4.0. For other versions, please see the documentation index. The PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a versatile nameserver which supports a large number of backends. These backends can either be plain zone files or be more…

How I killed Mailcloud’s 21,000 users today.

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Row-based replication, MySQL 5.6 upgrades and temporal data types

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Whither your rollback plan? MySQL 5.6 upgrades are in full swing these days and knowing how to safely upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6 is important. When upgrading a replication environment, it’s important that you can build a migration plan that safely…

How to: code JavaScript using Twitter bootstrap best practices

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Bootstrap was created at Twitter in mid-2010 by @mdo and @fat. It provides a lot of UI plugins easy to implement. You’ve probably already used it but have you looked at how it worked? Together, we will try to make another plugin using the same best…

GlusterFS 3.5 released

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Version 3.5 of the GlusterFS cluster filesystem has been released. New features include better logging, the ability to take snapshots of individual files (full volumes cannot yet be snapshotted), on-the-wire compression, on-disk encryption, and improved…

A live HTML5 editor made with Node.js

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Can be used for Javascript and CSS coding. Utilizes the incredible Codemirror text-editor for highlighting and indentation. Lightweight and easy to setup. Anyone can use it. Customizable UI. You can change the primary UI color at any time. (more…

Coping with the TCP TIME-WAIT state on busy Linux servers

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The Linux kernel documentation is not very helpful about what net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle does: Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0. It should not be changed without advice/request of technical experts. Its sibling,…

Map Reduce: A simple introduction (2010)

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See all my projects and blogs → Ever since google published its research paper on map reduce, you have been hearing about it. Here and there. If you have uptil now considered map-reduce a mysterious buzzword, and ignored it, Know that its not. The basic…

How to identify Node.js memory leak patterns with ChromeDevTools and heap snapshots

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