Custom Shell Check for Datadog Agents
The Datadog agent stands out for its extensibility. While many out-of-the-box integrations exist, edge cases often require custom solutions. This article …
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Datadog Squid Proxy Example for Agent Proxies
SQUID proxies serve as a practical solution to get your data out of your datacenter when you have a number of security restrictions. This approach enables …
Read more →Enabling Real-time Analytics with FPGAs
With the surge in analytics and big data, organizations need efficient methods to process massive data volumes from IoT devices, mapping systems, and consumer …
Read more →WordPress Optimization: Configuring CloudFlare as Your DNS Provider
Welcome to Part 4 of an 8-part series on implementing CloudFlare as a DNS provider for WordPress optimization. This guide assumes readers have either set up …
Read more →WordPress Optimization: Installing and Configuring WordPress
Welcome to part 5 of 8 in a series on Kick-Ass WordPress Optimization. This guide covers database and WordPress installation on a Digital Ocean droplet …
Read more →Kick-Ass WordPress Optimization
I’ve managed multiple WordPress sites with substantial traffic (up to 60K daily visits) on a single server. This article serves as an introductory roadmap …
Read more →WordPress Optimization: Setting Up a Web Server
Welcome to part 3 of an 8-part series on WordPress optimization focusing on web server configuration. This guide assumes completion of the previous installation …
Read more →WordPress Optimization: Getting Started
Welcome to Part 1 of a comprehensive 8-part series on WordPress optimization! This introductory chapter covers the essential prerequisites for getting started. …
Read more →WordPress Optimization: Setting Up A Virtual Server
This is Part 2 of an 8-part series on WordPress optimization, focusing on setting up your first virtual server. Why Anyone Can Do This IT professionals …
Read more →Redirecting Bad Referers with Varnish
Spam referrals cluttering analytics is frustrating. Here’s a VCL 4.0 approach to redirect suspicious referral sources. Implementation The solution uses a …
Read more →Deploying WordPress over Nginx and PHP-FPM
This post highlights advanced deployment resources for setting up WordPress infrastructure from the ground up. Key installation components include: Installing …
Read more →Socket.io Cluster with Nginx as Reverse Proxy
Node.js by default runs on a single process and at max utilizes one CPU. To take the full advantage of a multi core system, multiple node processes can be run …
Read more →Tornado Error Handling
This post discusses implementing custom error handling in the Tornado web framework by creating a reusable base handler class. The Problem I identified a need …
Read more →Tornado Sessions with Redis
Tornado really doesn’t have a great native session handler, so I created a custom solution combining Tornado with Redis for session management. Session …
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