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by Aldo Armiento

Google Cloud Platform for AWS Professionals

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This guide is designed to equip professionals who are familiar with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the key concepts required to get started with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The guide compares GCP with AWS and highlights the similarities and differences…

24 December 2015

OWC ships the Mac compatible OWC Mercury Pro with M-Disc support

Apple World Today

Other World Computing has shipped the OWC Mercury Pro, a USB 3.1 Gen 1 optical drive for plug and play support of CD, DVD, M-DISC and/or Blu-ray disc reading and writing with Macs and PCs. It brings optical media back to your workflow with USB 3.1 Gen 1…

23 December 2015

Mitigating DoS Attacks with Nginx

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A Distributed Denial‑of‑Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a service, usually a website, unavailable by bombarding it with so much traffic from multiple machines that the server providing the service is no longer able to function correctly because…

23 December 2015

Running Swift within Docker

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Did the IBM Swift Sandbox get you hooked on Swift? Great! Here is a quick guide to creating a docker image of your very own, with Swift baked in to build the next big thing. The Docker toolbox is all you’ll need to get started: Here are the contents of a…

23 December 2015

Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux

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A super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux. The image is only 5 MB and has access to a package repository that is much more complete than other BusyBox based images. Docker images today are big. Usually much larger than they need to be. There are a…

23 December 2015

Test CSS Flexbox Rules Live

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whether items wrap to the next (only applies if combined of items is greater than container's) only applies if there is more than one of items

22 December 2015